Harry Truman

Product Details

Actor : David Janssen
Format : NTSC
Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 9781565014497
Number of Pages : 45
Product Group : Video
Publisher : Sma Distribution
Release Date : 2002-06-01
UPC : 733961104660

ASIN : 0767000013

Customer Reviews

BRINGING HARRY S. TRUMAN TO LIFE (1999-11-29)

Anyone having read an authoritative Harry S. Truman biography and/or his personal diary will not find much new in this video. Yet the docudrama brings this ... ordinary man ... [Truman's self description] to life on the screen. There is emphasis in the film on Bess Truman's role (and her merciless mother, Mrs. Wallace's) in influencing the twists and turns of Harry's life. It clearly portrays Bess as a First Lady who cannot stand living in Washington, D.C. to the point where she would spend more time at her house in Independence, Missouri than at the White House. Moreover, the video frankly deals with Truman's unpopularity as president after he fearfully succeeded President Franklin D. Roosevelt upon his death. By and large, this docudrama is an honest portrayal by competent actors. Evidently, the film is sufficiently accurate for Harry Truman's daughter Margaret to endorse it. Viewing this video is worthwhile for providing a reasonably well acted and directed picture of a dangerous period of American 20th Century history. During this period a once ordinary and largely self educated Missouri farm boy would have to become the leader of the most powerful nation on earth and pervail in this job in spite of great opposition from his political enemies. This is an entertaining, well made reenactment of Harry Truman's life.

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