Ascent to Power How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World

And then the minute your set's over, you go back to your dressing room and you open up a giant book on Truman and sit on a metal stool, a little metal chair, and read it in your perfectly creased, you know, chinos and blue blazer.

And then the minute your set's over, you go back to your dressing room and you open up a giant book on Truman and sit on a metal stool, a little metal chair, and read it in your perfectly creased, you know, chinos and blue blazer.

And my third one is Truman. Truman is so dear to my heart because first of all, he was like the unlikely hero, the surprising hero. The fact that you come from the people and you serve the people and you don't forget that you're one of them, I find endearing.

I loved this biography.

I loved his book, George Marshall, Defender of the Republic, both those epic, enormous biographies that I love that I don't think enough people read but become the basis of the books that I write.

And I'm looking forward to you all reading this book, Ascent to Power, How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World.

And I think as I talk about in my chapter on him in the Justice Book, he reads Marcus Aurelius as a young man and it orients his whole life around these cardinal virtues.

And this is one of the earliest pages of your book about this small town Missouri farmer suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself the most powerful man in the world at perhaps the most precarious moment in the history of the world.