Truman
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: Reprint
- Author: David McCullough
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Release Date: June 1993
- ISBN-10: 0671869205
- ISBN-13: 9780671869205
- List Price: $22.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryThis 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 was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his fourth term. 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. His presidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of American foreign policy, and sent U.S. troops into the Korean War. In this winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most of Truman's war-time and Cold War decisions. |
Customer Reviews
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Outstanding Biography
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Another great effort by McCullough who ranks among our greatest historians. To be honest, I avoided this book for some time just because of the size of it; and I didn't really think President Truman warranted that type of treatment. But McCullough's books are always a pleasure.
While McCullough often seems to be a little too pro Truman, the book is like Truman, fair and to the point. The book takes Truman from his early days in Missouri to the Senate, the White House and beyond into retirement.
We get a close up view of the decision to drop the atomic bomb in World War II, implement the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift, and fire Gen. Douglas McArthur. So much of what happened during the Cold War, was the result of policies and decisions made during the Truman presidency.
The book is huge, and I am actually a little puzzled that the publishers did not elect to publish in two parts - the first ending with Truman being catapulted (totally unprepared) to the White House and the second dealing with his Presidency and beyond. But in fairness, both halves of the book are terrific.
NOT NEW!
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Seller said item was new. It was not by any means. Maybe could have squeezed in the "good" category.
A most extraordinary man
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David McCullough at his absolute best. Truman was the kind of man that the framers of the constitution had in mind when they wrote it.
Excellent Book
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I found this book to be excellent. The author brought to life a president whom I knew little about. It is not by accident that this book won the Pulitzer prize. It is a long book almost 1,000 pages but brings to life a magnificent American. It also brings to life the people who were his friends and enemies: Dean Acheson, Douglas McArthur, Ike Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. The amount of research the author had to do to compose this book is incredible. It also was very enlightening in understanding all the challenging issues Truman had to face during his presidency.
It was well worth the time in reading.
I'm getting too old to read books this long, but this one was worth it
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Writing a complementary review is the least I could do for Mr. McCullough, who reportedly researched Truman for 10 years before finishing his book. Thinking more deeply into this, can you believe you can get 10 years of a man's labor for 11.21$ (on the amazon kindle)????.
Truman is an outstanding book, an absolute Tour de Force, similar in scope and power to other recently written biographies, "Team of Rivals," by Doris Kearns Goodwin (which also won the Pulitzer prize) and "Snowball," by Alice Schroeder.
The book's greatest strength is the depth of research done...that shows how a young man, a farmer, without a college degree, but with tremendous integrity, rises to president of the United States...a book which covers a vast amount of terrifically interesting American history during, especially, the period of WWII, from the unique perspective of Harry Truman. An ancient Chinese curse reads, "may you live in interesting times." Well, Truman was the president in some very, very interesting times...
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