Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization

Reading Level
Grade 13
Time to Read
5 hrs 1 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization is 12th and 13th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 12
SMOG Index Grade 14
Coleman Liau Index Grade 12
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 8

Reading Time

5 hrs 1 mins

How long to read Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization?

The estimated word count of Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization is 75,175 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 1 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 8 hrs 22 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 48 mins.

Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization - 75,175 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 8 hrs 22 mins
Average 250 words/min 5 hrs 1 mins
Fast 450 words/min 2 hrs 48 mins
Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization by Joe Scarborough
Authors
Joe Scarborough

More about Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization

75,175 words

Word Count

for Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization

288 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 288 pages
Paperback: 368 pages

8 hours and 5 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republicans and Democrats behind America’s most dramatic foreign policy shift since George Washington delivered his farewell address. How did one of the least prepared presidents to walk into the Oval Office become one of its most successful?The year was 1947. The Soviet Union had moved from being America’s uneasy ally in the Second World War to its most feared enemy. With Joseph Stalin’s ambitions pushing westward, Turkey was pressured from the east while communist revolutionaries overran Greece. The British Empire was battered from its war with Hitler and suddenly teetering on the brink of financial ruin. Only America could afford to defend freedom in the West, and the effort was spearheaded by a president who hadn’t even been elected to that office. But Truman would wage a domestic political battle that carried with it the highest of stakes, inspiring friends and foes alike to join in his crusade to defend democracy across the globe.In Saving Freedom, Joe Scarborough recounts the historic forces that moved Truman toward his country’s long twilight struggle against Soviet communism, and how this untested president acted decisively to build a lasting coalition that would influence America’s foreign policy for generations to come. On March 12, 1947, Truman delivered an address before a joint session of Congress announcing a policy of containment that would soon become known as the Truman Doctrine. That doctrine pledged that the United States would “support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” The untested president’s policy was a radical shift from 150 years of isolationism, but it would prove to be the pivotal moment that guaranteed Western Europe’s freedom, the American Century’s rise, and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. Truman’s triumph over the personal and political struggles that confronted him following his ascension to the presidency is an inspiring tale of American leadership, fierce determination, bipartisan unity, and courage in the face of the rising Soviet threat. Saving Freedom explores one of the most pivotal moments of the twentieth century, a turning point when patriotic Americans of both political parties worked together to defeat tyranny.