Harry Truman

Truman

Emmy Award
Writers Guild of America Award


He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all the men who had held the highest office, Harry Truman was the least prepared, but he would surprise everyone.

PBS – American Experience
Four hours
1997



“Extraordinary...marvelously intimate and unfailingly absorbing.
This is the form at its most accomplished and distinguished.”
USA Today

“Thoroughly researched and totally engrossing.”
Chicago Sun-Times

“Superb...Grubin does a marvelous job of mixing the personal and the epic,
the humorous and the painful.”
Orlando Sentinel


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