Trumanby David McCullough | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Political" |
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| Pages: | 992 |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Date Read: | 07/03/1995 |
| Notes: | Pulitzer Prize Winner for Biography. The life of Harry S Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters — Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Joe McCarthy — and dramatic events. 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. McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary man from Missouri who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history. |
| My Rating: | 8 |