GIANGRECO, D. M. 1952-

PERSONAL: Born 1952.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1 Reynolds Ave., Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027-1352.

CAREER: Author and military affairs editor.

AWARDS, HONORS: Silver-Bronze Medal, 1982; Gerald Gilbert Award, 1988, for Roosevelt, de Gaulle, and the Posts; Monacado Prize, 1998, for article published in Journal of Military History.

WRITINGS:

Roosevelt, de Gaulle, and the Posts: Franco-AmericanWar Relations Viewed through Their Effects on teh French Postal System, 1942-1944, 1985.

(With Robert Griffin) Airbridge to Berlin. The BerlinCrisis of 1948: Origins and Aftermath, Presidio (Novato, CA), 1988.

War in Korea, 1950-1953, Presidio (Novato, CA), 1990.

(With Terry Griswold) Delta, America's Elite Counter-terrorist Force, Motorbooks International (Osceola, WI), 1992.

Stealth Fighter Pilot, Motorbooks International (Osceola, WI), 1993.

(Editor, with Kathryn Moore) Dear Harry . . .Truman's Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration through Correspondence with "Everyday Americans," Stackpole Books (Mechanicsburg, PA), 1999.

The Soldier from Indepencence: Harry S Truman in the Great War, Ballentine (New York, NY), 2005.

Contributor to books, including Rising Sun Victorious, 2001; contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Military History, American Heritage, and Pacific Historical Review.

SIDELIGHTS: D. M. Giangreco is a military affairs editor who has written on such subjects as the Berlin Wall crisis and the Korean War. More recently, he gained attention for coediting a collection of letters to President Harry S Truman. Conducting most of their research at the Truman Library, Giangreco and coeditor Kathryn Moore gathered together letters that U.S. citizens wrote to the White House during Truman's presidency. The correspondence in Dear Harry . . . Truman's Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration through Correspondence with "Everyday Americans," reflects the opinions of the American public on such subjects as the Korean War, the integration of the U.S. military, the president's recognition of the new state of Israel, and Truman's dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur. "As such," commented Albert N. Garland in Infantry, "this is not a scholarly history of that administration; it does offer, rather, a peek into the nation's soul." Many of the letters are critical of Truman's decisions. The administration's staff wrote carefully worded responses to many of these complaints, but some of the crazier letters that did not receive replies are also reproduced here, such as missives offering bizarre solutions to the country's problems. Truman's "mail reflected the turbulent, dynamic postwar nation he inherited as accidental President and tried to steer toward the future," noted New York Times Book Review contributor Stanley Weintraub. "His folksy shoot-from-the-hip manner encouraged many more letters than he could read."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Infantry, May-August, 2000, Albert N. Garland, review of Dear Harry . . . Truman's Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration through Correspondence with "Everyday Americans," p. 51.

New York Times Book Review, October 24, 1999, Stanley Weintraub, "The Truman Show: A Selection of Letters Sent to the 33d President Reflects Key Moments in His Administration," p. 47.

Times Literary Supplement, June 28, 1991, Warren F. Kimball, "The Korean War Revised," pp. 8-9.