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 041 Chap10 Sec1

    Duration: 38min
  • Truman 042 Chap10 Sec2

    Duration: 13min
  • Truman 043 Chap10 Sec3

    Duration: 49min
  • Truman 044 Chap10 Sec4

    Duration: 29min
  • Truman 045 Chap10 Sec5

    Duration: 28min
  • Truman 046 Chap10 Sec6

    Duration: 38min
  • Truman 047 Part4 Chap11 Sec1

    Duration: 47min
  • Truman 048 Chap11 Sec2

    Duration: 43min
  • Truman 049 Chap11 Sec3

    Duration: 47min
  • Truman 050 Chap11 Sec4

    Duration: 42min
  • Truman 051 Chap11 Sec5

    Duration: 15min
  • Truman 052 Chap12 Sec1

    Duration: 51min
  • Truman 053 Chap12 Sec2

    Duration: 51min
  • Truman 054 Chap12 Sec3

    Duration: 42min
  • Truman 055 Chap12 Sec4

    Duration: 01h16s
  • Truman 056 Chap13 Sec1

    Duration: 37min
  • Truman 057 Chap13 Sec2A

    Duration: 46min
  • Truman 058 Chap13 Sec2B

    Duration: 40min
  • Truman 059 Chap13 Sec3A

    Duration: 37min
  • Truman 060 Chap13 Sec3B

    Duration: 51min
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