Product Details
Simon & Schuster, June 1992
Hardcover, 1120 pages
ISBN-10: 0671456547
ISBN-13: 9780671456542
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Get the reading group guideAwards and Nominations
- Pulitzer Prize
- 17th Annual Lincoln Literary Award (1993)
- Colonial Dames of America Award (1993)
- Francis Parkman Prize/Society of American Historians (1993)
- Harry S Truman Good Neighbor Award (1993)
- Harry S Truman Public Service Award (1993)
- John P. McGovern Award Lecture/Cosmos Club (1993)
- Lionel Gelber Prize
- National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1995)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Charles Frankel Prize (1995)
- Pennsylvania Governor's Award (1993)
- St. Louis Literary Award (1993)
- Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence/St. Nichols Society (1993)
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Description
Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured the heart of the nation. The life and times of the thirty-third President of the United States, Truman provides a deeply moving look at an extraordinary, singular American.
From Truman's small-town, turn-of-the-century boyhood and his transforming experience in the face of war in 1918, to his political beginnings in the powerful Pendergast machine and his rapid rise to prominence in the U.S. Senate, McCullough shows a man of uncommon vitality and strength of character. Here too is a telling account of Truman's momentous decision to use the atomic bomb and the weighty responsibilities that he was forced to confront on the dawning of a new age.
Distinguished historian and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author David McCullough tells one of the greatest American stories in this stirring audio adaptation of Truman -- a compelling, classic portrait of a life that shaped history.
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Jonathan YardleyThe Washington PostMeticulously detailed, elegantly written, tightly constructed, rich in revealing anecdotes and penetrating insights. It is, as its subject demands, biography on the grand scale.
Alan BrinkleyThe New York Times Book ReviewA warm, affectionate and thoroughly captivating biography....the most thorough account of Truman's life yet to appear.
Walter IsaacsonTimeMcCullough's marvelous feel for history is based on an appreciation of colorful tales and an insight into personalities. In this compelling saga of America's greatest common-man president, McCullough adds luster to an old-fashioned historical approach...the sweeping narrative, filled with telling details and an appreciation of the role individuals play in, shaping the world.
The EconomistRemarkable....you may open it at any point and instantly become fascinated, so easy, lucid, and energetic is the narrative and so absorbing the sequence of events.
Robert DallekLos Angeles Times Book ReviewMcCullough is a master storyteller whose considerable narrative skills have been put to exquisite use in re-creating the life and times of America's 33rd president.
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