Truman (Abridged) Truman (Abridged)

Truman (Abridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.

The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
DM
David McCullough
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
05:34
hr min
RELEASED
1992
December 1
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster Audio
SIZE
276.3
MB

Customer Reviews

OG jersey ,

David McCullough never fails to deliver!

So well written, apolitical and an excellent study of the man.

Sward1961 ,

Awesome audio book

Excellent audio book and I would recommend it to anyone.

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