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Today two former Truman Library directors and the current head of the Truman Library Institute, the library’s nonprofit fundraising partner, all agree that McCullough’s book - in the 30 years since its publication - proved helpful in raising the money that allowed library officials to update the library and reposition it on the Kansas City area’s cultural map. McCullough – who died last month in Massachusetts at age 89 – later would return to the Kansas City area to raise still more money for the library, which unveiled its second major redesign last year. “I feel my own participation in trying to raise that money helped.” “It certainly brought the story of Harry Truman to the country,” he said. In context of that publicity, library officials had mounted a fundraising campaign to finance a $22.5 million makeover of the Independence landmark, and had organized a “Grand Rededication” in 2001.īefore McCullough’s 2007 address a reporter asked him what role he and his book might have played in what ended up being almost $24 million raised to fund the library’s renovation. The book, along with the 1995 HBO film based on it and starring Gary Sinise, had elevated the Truman story to a place in American memory it hadn’t occupied in decades. It spent 43 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, received a Pulitzer Prize and sold more than a million copies. McCullough published a biography of Harry Truman in 1992. To celebrate, library leaders invited author David McCullough to speak. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence observed its 50th anniversary. Sponsor Message Become a Flatland sponsor