TrumanModern · Biography, History, Nonfiction
Truman
1992 · 1120 pages · Nonfiction
65
Modern
★ 4.17 on Goodreads · 93K ratings
≈ 28 hours to read · about 8 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (Biography) winner (1993). 4.17★ from 93K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
65Must-Read Score
- Critics63 out of 100 · counts 35%+25
- Readers70 out of 100 · counts 50%+40
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #28 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #41 of the 220 history books we rank
- #49 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #153 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (Biography) winner (1993)
Shortlisted
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (1992)
Reads as
True story
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