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 Harry S. Truman: A Life Harry S. Truman: A Life is a 1994 biography of Harry S. Truman, president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, by historian Robert Hugh Ferrell. Although it was overshadowed by the popular success of David McCullough's Pulitzer-winning biography "Truman", Ferrell's book was widely praised by scholars in his field. Robert H. Ferrell, a professor emeritus at Indiana University, was widely considered the preeminent authority on the history of the Truman administration. A prolific author who produced more than 60 books in his lifetime, Ferrell devoted particular attention to Truman, writing or editing more