Guardian angel serve as an Hypothesis to salve many doubts, whereof common Philosophy affordeth no solution: By the 19th century, the guardian angel was no longer viewed in Anglophone lands as an intercessory figure, but rather as a force protecting the believer from performing sin. A parody appears in Byron's "Don Juan": "Her guardian angel had given up his garrison" (Canto I, xvii). Clarence Odbody, the guardian angel in the 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life", "earned his wings" through bringing awareness that life was worth living to the film's protagonist, George Bailey. Guardian angel A guardian angel is an angel that
Harry S. Truman: A Life than a dozen books on his life and presidency, including the 1983 New York Times bestseller "" and 2002's "The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman". "Harry S. Truman: A Life" draws on Ferrell's familiarity with Truman's life and work, including extensive research into the manuscripts and oral histories in the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. Ferrell's biography follows the course of Truman's life from his birth in 1884 in Lamar, Missouri to his 1972 death and burial at the Truman Library in Independence. The first five chapters examine his service as a captain in World