Author:
Narrator: David McCullough
Format: Abridged-CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: May 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $32.00
Discs: 5
Available for the first time on CD, this Pulitzer-Prize winning work chronicles the life and times of the thirty-third President of the United States, from his small-town, turn-of-the-century boyhood and his transforming experience in the face of war in 1918, to his political beginnings in the powerful Pendergast machine and his rapid rise to prominence in the U.S. Senate, to his momentous decision to use the atomic bomb.
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