Truman Audiobook

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• “McCullough is a master storyteller whose considerable narrative skills have been put to exquisite use in recreating the life and times of America’s thirty-third president.” 

  — Los Angeles Times Book Review

• “Perhaps the highest tribute one can pay a biographer is to say that through him one comes to know his subject almost as though in person. In fostering the reader’s acquaintance with Harry Truman, not once does McCullough get in the way. This is in every respect a splendid work.”

  — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• “Exemplary and riveting…The book is like a comfortable Victorian three-decker novel. There are two plots, a hero and heroine, and a glittering cast of characters ranging from Dean Acheson, Churchill and General Marshall to the Pendergasts and General MacArthur, as well as a splendid collection of Shakespearean clowns…McCullough’s book will stand for a long time as the outstanding analysis of an extremely important subject: the greatness of Truman, and its role as an exogenous ‘cause’ in the history of his time.”

  — Times Literary Supplement (London)

• “McCullough’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...[A] sweeping narrative.”

  — Time

• “Truman is biography as good as it gets, as absorbing and readable as it is voluminous. McCullough writes like a novelist, digs like a zealous reporter, and puts things in perspective like the superb historian he is.” 

  — People

• “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...In this winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most of Truman’s wartime and Cold War decisions.” 

  — Amazon.com editorial review

• “The book is an impressive tribute to a man whose brisk cheerfulness and self-confidence were combined with a God-fearing humility; a great and good man who, in McCullough’s opinion, was a great president.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “For detailed treatment of policy, scholars will often need a specialized monograph. Yet McCullough’s Truman is not quite a saint, and his own scholarship is exhaustive in portraying Truman the man. No biography approaches the richness, depth, or grace of this one.”

  — Library Journal

• “A gargantuan but surprisingly agile and spellbinding biography of the plain-speaking, plain-dealing Man from Missouri... Rich in detail, enthralling, and moving: a classic presidential biography.” 

  — Kirkus Reviews