Truman
by: David McCullough
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This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluationof his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Trumanwas a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental presidentafter Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his fourth term. Truman's stunningcome-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personalqualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinaryAmericans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself. Hispresidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped theatomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of Americanforeign policy, and sent U.S. troops into the Korean War. In this winner ofthe 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most ofTruman's war-time and Cold War decisions.
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Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and the world by achieving a greatness all his own after coming to the presidency in FDR's giant shadow. An extraordinary and deeply moving biography, at once spare in its style yet rich in emotion and in detail. 48 pages of photographs.
This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluationof his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Trumanwas a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental presidentafter Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his fourth term. Truman's stunningcome-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personalqualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinaryAmericans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself. Hispresidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped theatomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of Americanforeign policy, and sent U.S. troops into the Korean War. In this winner ofthe 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most ofTruman's war-time and Cold War decisions.
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Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and the world by achieving a greatness all his own after coming to the presidency in FDR's giant shadow. An extraordinary and deeply moving biography, at once spare in its style yet rich in emotion and in detail. 48 pages of photographs.
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Rating: - Bravo
I heard of the name of David Mccullough in the past as a writer, but was never inclined to check out his books. Just recently while perusing the news channels his name was discussed as a fascinating author so with my interest peaking,at the first opportunity I went and purchased a copy of Truman. From start to finish I haven't been disappointed. With more than a thousand pages it's like two volumes in one. Majority of the pages are filled with quotes from Truman. It's like having the subject speak ... Read More
Rating: - Truman
David McCullough writes the best, most throughly researched books I have ever read.I have only read Truman and John Adams.I intend to read all of his works.
Rating: - A massive and excellent biography of Harry Truman
This biography of Harry Truman is about what you would expect from David McCullough--a detailed, massive work, illuminating the character of Truman with detailed documentation.The end result is a book that appears to capture the nature of its subject excellently. On the front inside cover, there is a quotation from a reviewer that speaks to the effectiveness of this book: "Perhaps the biggest tribute one can pay a biographer is to say that through him one comes to know his subject almost as though ... Read More
Rating: - Pray Obama's Read It
The alternative title here should read, "Why Didn't I Read This Years Ago, Too?" 'Cause like the Martin Gilbert biography of Churchill ("Churchill: A Life"), it's massive (1000 pages). Plus the subject of McCullough approaches the stature of the man revealed by Gilbert.
Harry Truman brought Lincoln to mind for me, as both Presidents embody the very meaning of "integrity." Yes, Mr. Truman had his human failings but, unlike some Presidents I have known, I'm left with absolutely no doubt that ... Read More
Rating: - Here's a President for the Common Folk!
Alan Brinkley, who wrote the New York Times Book Review of David McCullough's Truman, came up with these rather remarkable words on the life of Harry S. Truman, "My God, he's in color!"
You can bet your --- on that!Mr. Truman was indeed in color.This book by David McCullough goes into the very life and soul of a man who did what he thought was best for God and Country.
Mr. Truman's humble beginnings in Missouri from a farmer, an Army Captain in World War I to a Judgeship traveling ... Read More
- BravoI heard of the name of David Mccullough in the past as a writer, but was never inclined to check out his books. Just recently while perusing the news channels his name was discussed as a fascinating author so with my interest peaking,at the first opportunity I went and purchased a copy of Truman. From start to finish I haven't been disappointed. With more than a thousand pages it's like two volumes in one. Majority of the pages are filled with quotes from Truman. It's like having the subject speak ... Read More
- TrumanDavid McCullough writes the best, most throughly researched books I have ever read.I have only read Truman and John Adams.I intend to read all of his works.
- A massive and excellent biography of Harry TrumanThis biography of Harry Truman is about what you would expect from David McCullough--a detailed, massive work, illuminating the character of Truman with detailed documentation.The end result is a book that appears to capture the nature of its subject excellently. On the front inside cover, there is a quotation from a reviewer that speaks to the effectiveness of this book: "Perhaps the biggest tribute one can pay a biographer is to say that through him one comes to know his subject almost as though ... Read More
- Pray Obama's Read ItThe alternative title here should read, "Why Didn't I Read This Years Ago, Too?" 'Cause like the Martin Gilbert biography of Churchill ("Churchill: A Life"), it's massive (1000 pages). Plus the subject of McCullough approaches the stature of the man revealed by Gilbert.
Harry Truman brought Lincoln to mind for me, as both Presidents embody the very meaning of "integrity." Yes, Mr. Truman had his human failings but, unlike some Presidents I have known, I'm left with absolutely no doubt that ... Read More
- Here's a President for the Common Folk!Alan Brinkley, who wrote the New York Times Book Review of David McCullough's Truman, came up with these rather remarkable words on the life of Harry S. Truman, "My God, he's in color!"
You can bet your --- on that!Mr. Truman was indeed in color.This book by David McCullough goes into the very life and soul of a man who did what he thought was best for God and Country.
Mr. Truman's humble beginnings in Missouri from a farmer, an Army Captain in World War I to a Judgeship traveling ... Read More
