Truman
An ordinary man from Missouri inherits the presidency at the end of the Second World War, and rises to it.
David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, from his Missouri farm boyhood and service in the First World War to the presidency he inherited when Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945. McCullough follows him through the end of the war, the atomic bomb, the Marshall Plan and Korea.
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Morgan Housel
Truman, a biography of the 33rd president, is an incredible story of the world’s biggest problems falling into the lap of someone who never thought he’d face them.
Article · May 2017
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