His books increasingly are tackling complex, monumental subjects. But, for David McCullough to have emerged from his career as extraordinarily active… he is producing a book every couple of years now.
That a historian of the distinction of my friend, David McCullough, can write so brilliantly, so intelligently and so effortlessly apparently, that, of course, the greatest test of all for the effort he puts in to it is enormous. A full transcript of their conversation follows.Īllen Weinstein: I think they welcomed you David, properly. On June 14, he participated in “An American Conversation” with then-Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein. 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.In 2007, David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, returned to Independence, Missouri and the Truman Library to help commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Library’s dedication. 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. 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. 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.
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 Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S.
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