My review: Truman by David Mccullough

Title: Truman
Author: David Mccullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: June 14, 1993
Edition: paperback (1,120 pages)

Categories:

• Nonfiction
• American History
• Biography
• History
• Politics
• Presidents

Literary Awards:

• Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1993)
• Francis Parkman Prize (1993)
• Lionel Gelber Prize (1992)
• National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (1992)

Truman by David McCullough

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Truman, by David Mccullough, is one of those books I expected to be well written and interesting because the author writes well, and our thirty-third President was an interesting person. But nothing prepared me for the absolute brilliants of this book. The detail and the author's ability to capture the personality of the man is what makes this biography superb. The detail of events and mood of the country leading up to and during President Truman's time in political office is so interwoven into this story that you don't even realize you're also getting an awesome history lesson as you read.

My parents were huge fans of President Truman, so I grew up hearing about him. After reading this biography, I better understand why they thought so highly of him as both a human being and a politician. If you want to learn and understand more about world leaders and their interactions during and after World War II, and the implications of the atomic bomb, this book will inform you. Five stars are just not enough when it comes to rating this book.