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Acknowledgments Several people deserve lots of the credit and none of the blame this book may or may not garner. Colonel (Ret.) Rick Swain and Pat Roe, author and Marine veteran of Korea, read what I wrote about military operations and saved me from some bad mistakes. Bob Ferrell, Dennis Giangreco, and Ed Drea, true experts on Truman or MacArthur, read drafts and tried to educate me about this president and that general. Paul Edwards, founder of the Center for the Study of the Korean War, shared his extraordinary knowledge of that conflict. Jim Schneider, John Braeman, and Don Gilmore read the entire manuscript and improved the writing substantially, although subsequent readers might wonder where. The staff of the Indiana University Press and freelance copy editor Carol Kennedy have been very helpful, patient, and understanding. At the MacArthur and Truman libraries, Jim Zobel, Liz Safly, Dennis Bilger, Randy Sowell, and Pauline Testerman were invaluable. If Truman and MacArthur had been nearly that helpful to one another, I would have had no story to tell. ...

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