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>Nothing could be further from Roy Jenkins view of him. This is the first biography of Truman to be written by an author with anything approaching the subject s own range of political experience, and Roy Jenkins brings to this book a quality of appreciation of Truman s political skills which has not been seen before. It is also the first biography to be written by a British author, giving it a new objectivity on the international affairs which occupied so much of Truman s presidency and by which he must be judged.> >Nothing could be further from Roy Jenkins view of him. This is the first biography of Truman to be written by an author with anything approaching the subject s own range of political experience, and Roy Jenkins brings to this book a quality of appreciation of Truman s political skills which has not been seen before. It is also the first biography to be written by a British author, giving it a new objectivity on the international affairs which occupied so much of Truman s presidency and by which he must be judged.>