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 061 Chap13 Sec4

    Duration: 20min
  • Truman 062 Chap14 Sec1

    Duration: 51min
  • Truman 063 Chap14 Sec2

    Duration: 01h08min
  • Truman 064 Chap14 Sec3

    Duration: 01h05min
  • Truman 065 Chap14 Sec4

    Duration: 08min
  • Truman 066 Chap14 Sec5

    Duration: 32min
  • Truman 067 Part5 Chap15 Sec1

    Duration: 37min
  • Truman 068 Chap15 Sec2

    Duration: 59min
  • Truman 069 Chap15 Sec3

    Duration: 44min
  • Truman 070 Chap15 Sec4

    Duration: 31min
  • Truman 071 Chap15 Sec5

    Duration: 33min
  • Truman 072 Chap16 Sec1

    Duration: 56min
  • Truman 073 Chap16 Sec2

    Duration: 28min
  • Truman 074 Chap16 Sec3

    Duration: 18min
  • Truman 075 Chap16 Sec4

    Duration: 01h34s
  • Truman 076 Chap16 Sec5A

    Duration: 43min
  • Truman 077 Chap16 Sec5B

    Duration: 46min
  • Truman 078 Chap17 Sec1

    Duration: 01h01min
  • Truman 079 Chap17 Sec2

    Duration: 40min
  • Truman 080 Chap17 Sec3

    Duration: 21min
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