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Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World (Audiobook)

Posted By: tukotikko
Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World (Audiobook)

Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World (Audiobook) By William Lee Miller, read by Dick Hill
Unabridged edition 2012 | 19 hours and 23 mins | ISBN: 1452657637 | MP3 64 kbps | 561 MB


From William Lee Miller, the highly regarded biographer of Abraham Lincoln, a riveting dual examination of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower that explores the similarities and equally striking differences of two remarkable men in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture and politics. Two Americans weaves together the life stories of Truman and Eisenhower, showing how these future presidents, born six years apart from each other in small farming towns, were emblematic of their Midwestern upbringings and their generation. Miller also shows how their markedly different life experiences during World War I and between the world wars would shape their choices and the roles they played in the politics of the time, as Truman became the quintessential politician, and Eisenhower, the thoroughgoing anti-politician. Their personalities come alive in vividly described scenes of their collaboration during the war-torn 1940s; their dual, but different, roles in bringing the war to an end and shaping the postwar world; their growing disapproval of each other; and, finally, in 1952, the hostile bickering and maneuvering that characterized the passing of presidential power from one to the other.