Klara, Robert: - ROBERT KLARA is the author of the critically acclaimed FDR's Funeral Train and The Hidden White House. His unveiling of the private world of the famous funeral train was hailed as "a major new contribution to U.S. history" by Douglas Brinkley. His second book, a dramatic account of Truman's fight to save the White House, was called "popular history at its best" (The Christian Science Monitor). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, among other publications.