The similarities in their lives and personalities are incredibly striking. You can call me crazy, but in many ways Harry Truman reminds me of a mid-western Calvin Coolidge. He possessed no business acumen and almost every venture he attempted failed he had a reputation for being impeccably honest but was sponsored by a disreputable political boss and he seemed to have a knack for being in the right place at the right time – on the battlefield and in politics. It’s a sentiment I find hard to refute…and yet I found several aspects of his life fascinating. BOMC main selection History Book Club and QPB alternatives author tour.Harry Truman has a reputation for being a bit boring. 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.
The book's re-creation of the 1948 presidential campaign, during which Newsweek 's poll of 50 political writers predicted that the incumbent would lose the election to Thomas Dewey, is the most complete account of that surprise victory to date.
Her mother never felt Truman was good enough for her daughter, even after he became president. McCullough pays considerable attention to Truman's family, especially his fervent and touching courtship of Bess Wallace, the idolized love of his life. The book relates how Truman (1884-1972) overcame the stigma of business failure and debt (as well as the accusation that he was ``bellboy'' to Kansas City's Pendergast machine) and acquired a reputation for honesty, reliability and common sense. McCullough ( Mornings on Horseback ) has written a surefooted, highly satisfying biography of the 33rd president, one that not only conveys in rich detail Truman's accomplishments as a politician and statesman, but also reveals the character and personality of this constantly-surprising man-as schoolboy, farmer, soldier, merchant, county judge, senator, vice president and chief executive. forces to Korea and upheld the principle of civilian control over the military by firing Gen. Truman who ordered the atomic bomb dropped, halted Communists in Turkey and Greece, initiated the Marshall Plan, NATO and the Berlin Airlift, ordered desegregation of the armed forces, established the CIA and the Defense Department, committed U.S. Cracker-barrel plain in speech and looks, this seemingly ordinary man turned out to be one of our most dynamic presidents.
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