Truman

  • Author: David McCullough
  • Narrator: Nelson Runger
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 54:11:34
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Synopsis

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.

Chapters

  • Truman 021 Chap5 Sec4

    Duration: 17min
  • Truman 022 Chap5 Sec5

    Duration: 24min
  • Truman 023 Chap5 Sec6

    Duration: 34min
  • Truman 024 Chap5 Sec7

    Duration: 28min
  • Truman 025 Chap6 Sec1

    Duration: 40min
  • Truman 026 Chap6 Sec2

    Duration: 29min
  • Truman 027 Chap6 Sec3

    Duration: 41min
  • Truman 028 Chap6 Sec4

    Duration: 53min
  • Truman 029 Chap6 Sec5

    Duration: 38min
  • Truman 030 Chap7 Sec1

    Duration: 57min
  • Truman 031 Chap7 Sec2

    Duration: 01h08min
  • Truman 032 Chap8 Sec1

    Duration: 42min
  • Truman 033 Chap8 Sec2

    Duration: 31min
  • Truman 034 Chap8 Sec3

    Duration: 33min
  • Truman 035 Chap8 Sec4

    Duration: 30min
  • Truman 036 Chap8 Sec5

    Duration: 30min
  • Truman 037 Chap9 Sec1

    Duration: 46min
  • Truman 038 Chap9 Sec2

    Duration: 01h17min
  • Truman 039 Chap9 Sec3

    Duration: 25min
  • Truman 040 Chap9 Sec4

    Duration: 50min
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