Truman

Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition
ISBN: 1442387807
Language: English
Formats: Audio CD, Abridged, Audiobook, CD,
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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—now available from Encore for a great value!

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 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.

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—now available from Encore for a great value!

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 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.

While we have the full Truman biography we had not read it in awhile. Since we had a road trip ahead of us and discovered this wonderful value we purchased it. The abridged version remains seamless; all of the important events in HST’s private and public life are covered in detail. McCullough’s voice is perfect, as always. He manages to convey the saltiness of HST’s speech without any discomfort or awkwardness. Perhaps the most telling point of the book is that HST is the sort of president envisioned by the founding fathers—a private, commonsensical man with deep human experience who is called to serve in parlous times, his bedrock features being his good judgment and unshakable character. The only problem with listening to the cd’s as you are driving is that your eyes will well up over and over again, not just at the greatness of the man and the tests to which he was subjected, but also the distance between him and our current and prospective political leadership. He had to follow FDR, complete WWII, decide on the use of the atomic bomb, steer away from a war with China over Korea, develop the Marshall Plan and the Berlin airlift, not to mention some horrific coal and railroad strikes along the way.

McCullough provides the necessary narrative, but, as always, he does it from a novelist’s point of view. He doesn’t just recount the results of meetings. He tells us what the individuals were wearing, what the temperature was, how the room was furnished, the materials from which the desks and tables were constructed, and so on. Put simply, he brings a grand historic narrative to life and he does it on a human scale. It has often been said that a successful biographer should have a fundamental respect for his subject but also tell the unvarnished truth.

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