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<i>The General vs. The President</i>is that rare military chronicle that becomes an instant page-turning classic. <b> <i>San Antonio Express-News</i></b> Fast-paced, dramatic, and amply illustrates whyTruman s stock has been on the rise in recent decades. <b> <i>Boston Globe</i></b> A vivid accounting of an event that was, on the surface, a personality conflict between two strong-minded figures and, at the bottom, a courageous act that solidified civilian authority over the military in wartime. <b> <i>Dallas Morning News</i></b> Brands spikes the shadowboxing between [Truman and MacArthur] with vivid dispatches from the battlefield that give his tale a get-along kick. <b> <i>TIME</i></b> Ahighly readable take on the clash of two titanic figures in a period of hair-trigger nuclear tensions . . . History offers few antagonists with such dramatic contrasts, and Brands brings these two to life. <b> <i>Los Angeles Times</i></b> Two American heroes tested and tried at their most inspired hours . . . An exciting, well-written comparison study of two American leaders at loggerheads during the Korean War crisis. <b> <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>, starred review</b>

-The General vs. The President is that rare military chronicle that becomes an instant page-turning classic.---San Antonio Express-News -Fast-paced, dramatic, and amply illustrates why Truman's stock has been on the rise in recent decades.---Boston Globe -A vivid accounting of an event that was, on the surface, a personality conflict between two strong-minded figures and, at the bottom, a courageous act that solidified civilian authority over the military in wartime.---Dallas Morning News -Brands spikes the shadowboxing between [Truman and MacArthur] with vivid dispatches from the battlefield that give his tale a get-along kick.---TIME -A highly readable take on the clash of two titanic figures in a period of hair-trigger nuclear tensions . . . History offers few antagonists with such dramatic contrasts, and Brands brings these two to life.---Los Angeles Times -Two American heroes tested and tried at their most inspired hours . . . An exciting, well-written comparison study of two American leaders at loggerheads during the Korean War crisis.- --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class.

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