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Alonzo L. Hamby

Author of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman

10 Works 412 Members

About the Author

Alonzo L. Hamby is currently a Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Includes the names: A HAMBY, Alonzo Hamby, Alonzo L. Hamby, ed. Alonzo L. Hamby

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Works by Alonzo L. Hamby

Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995) 148 copies

Liberalism and Its Challengers: From F.D.R. to Bush (1985) 72 copies

For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s (2004) 62 copies

Man of Destiny: FDR and the Making of the American Century (2015) 56 copies

The New Deal: analysis and interpretation (1981) 27 copies

Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism (1974) 21 copies

Harry S. Truman and the Fair Deal (1974) 12 copies

The Imperial Years (1978) 11 copies

Imperial Years (1976) 2 copies

Access to the papers of recent public figures : the New Harmony conference 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1940-01-13
Gender: male
Education: Southeast Missouri State College (BA | 1960)
Columbia University (MA | 1961)
University of Missouri (PhD | 1965)
Occupations: historian
Organizations: American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Historians of American Communism
Southern Historical Association
Ohio Academy of History (show all 7)
Phi Alpha Theta
Birthplace: Humansville, Missouri, USA
Places of residence: Athens, Ohio, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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Books in the Bibliography of The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis (1)

Awards

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Distinguished Publication Award, Ohio Academy of History

Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism (1974)

Herbert Hoover Book Award

Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995)

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Works: 10
Members: 412
Popularity: #59,115
Rating: ½ 3.4

ISBNs: 15

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