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Title: Honest portrait of a folk hero
Review: Unfortunately, the internet has all but killed out the folk hero. But, Harry R. Truman was just that, and this book does an excellent job of fleshing out the good, and bad, of an infinitely interesting casualty of Mount Saint Helens' fury.As a relative, Rosen could have fallen prey to portraying her uncle in an overly heroic light. However, what makes this a great read is that she avoids this. Instead, this is a candid picture of a guy would could vacillate between generous and hateful, in a few paragraphs.Try to get a copy of this criminally out-of-print biography, if you are at all interested in the cantankerous central figure in the Mount Saint Helens disaster story. I'd have been about 6-7 years old when Harry was killed by his mountain but, after reading this, I quite would have like to have met him.
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