Truman threatened to draft strikers into the army. "It was as high-handed, as unconstitutional, a measure as imaginable," says biographer David McCullough. "But he meant it." ...

David McCullough wrote the essay on Harry Truman for the book Character Above All, published earlier this year by Simon & Schuster. He also appears on the PBS television program adapted from the book.

For writers of nonfiction like the late David McCullough, whose subjects included John Adams and Harry Truman, or Ron Chernow ...