Dr. Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr. is the assistant to the president and a professor of history at the Virginia Military Institute. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and has recently published Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War (1999), a book that analyzes the American homefront during the war. He is also an assistant editor of the Journal of Military History and is an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of the Korean War, to be released in June 2000 by ABC-CLIO.
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