Truman
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.37 (986 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671869205 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Harry Truman’s Victory Lap" according to Michael Griswold. I’ve been on a big presidential kick lately with the 2016 Presidential Election around a month away. So with that in mind, I will offer my thoughts on Truman. On the positive, I think he did a magnificent job covering Harry Truman as far as giving the reader the broad experience o. Awesome story of an awesome man Excellent book. David McCullough is a real master at putting you next to the character/s he writes about. Not many people realize what a great man Truman was. The responsibility of having to push the red button to end WWII had to have been so heavy. He had courage and I don't remember b. Fascinating story of a true American written by America's best historian Burak Tarcan Fascinating story of a true American, starting from his frontier origins in Missouri all the way up to the White House in Washington.Reading this book painted the picture for me the American expansion in the West, how the republican/democratic party machines work, how cold war started a
. troops into the Korean War. This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluation of his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Truman's stunning come-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personal qualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinary Americans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself. Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his fourth term. In this winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most of Truman's war-time
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. The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography 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. 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.. 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