12. For sharply conflicting assessments, see Alonzo L. Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (New York, 1999), especially 640–41, and Arnold A. Offner, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953 (Stanford, Calif., 2000), especially 16, 18, 23, 457–58, 465, 470.