{"id":37564,"date":"2013-06-05T13:46:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/book-review-truman-by-david-mccullough-1992.html"},"modified":"2013-06-07T08:27:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:27:05","slug":"book-review-truman-by-david-mccullough-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/book-review-truman-by-david-mccullough-1992.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: "Truman" by David McCullough (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"
It seems like it should be an excellent book, but the audio abridgment from 1100+ pages down to 5 CDs renders it into a Readers Digest edition, ruining the structure and leaving way too many blank places in this great man's life.<\/div>\n

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\n For what there is of it, this seems to be a fine biography of a great president. McCullough’s writing style (and reading style) are engaging and approachable (though he does …\n <\/p>\n

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It seems like it should be an excellent book, but the audio abridgment from 1100+ pages down to 5 CDs renders it into a Readers Digest edition, ruining the structure and leaving way too many blank places in this great man's life. a review of Truman For what there is of it, this seems to … Continue reading “Book Review: "Truman" by David McCullough (1992)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19090,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/that-truman-quote.html","url_meta":{"origin":37564,"position":0},"title":"That Truman quote","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Nov-10 8:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie's mentioned this quote to me a couple of times recently, so I went and looked it up. \"I\u2019ve seen it happen time after time. 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