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Truman

PBS - American Experience

4 Hours

1987

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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.

Emmy Award

Writers Guild of America Award

“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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