The late David McCullough on Harry Truman

Historian David McCullough has died at 89. The two-time Pulitzer prize winning author was a familiar voice to Americans as narrator of many Ken Burns documentaries. He was a great interview! History comes alive in this 1992 interview with master historian David McCullough on his biography ‘Truman’. No one thought Harry Truman would win the 1948 presidential election. McCullough talks about the improbable win sparked by a late-night Democratic convention speech and improbably presidency of the haberdasher from Kansas city

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