Harry S. Truman

Regarded as one of this century’s great Presidents, he oversaw America’s post‑war emergence as a dominant world power—yet Harry Truman was a failed businessman who turned to politics only because he needed a job. This modern portrait of “the Man from Missouri” combines interviews, archival footage and photographs to chronicle President Truman’s lasting legacy. From dropping the atomic bomb on Japan to the creation of NATO, and from his stunning upset of Dewey in 1948 to the Cold War era of Korea and McCarthy’s witch hunts, here are the defining moments of his life and Presidency. Biography is proud to present this profile of the gruff, no‑nonsense leader who earned the nickname “Give ’em Hell Harry.”