Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Truman is 8th and 9th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 8 |
SMOG Index | Grade 10 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 8 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of Truman is 503,905 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 33 hrs 36 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 56 hrs. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 18 hrs 40 mins.
Truman - 503,905 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 56 hrs |
Average | 250 words/min | 33 hrs 36 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 18 hrs 40 mins |
for Truman
The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.