Harry Trumans Excellent Adventure

Author : Matthew Algeo
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569762511
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure written by Matthew Algeo and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his childhood sweetheart Bess, off to visit old friends, take in a Broadway play, celebrate their wedding anniversary in the Big Apple, and blow a bit of the money he'd just received to write his memoirs. Hopefully incognito. In this lively history, author Matthew Algeo meticulously details how Truman's plan to blend in went wonderfully awry. Fellow diners, bellhops, cabbies, squealing teenagers at a Future Homemakers of America convention, and one very by-the-book Pennsylvania state trooper--all unknowingly conspired to blow his cover. Algeo revisits the Trumans' route, staying at the same hotels and eating at the same diners, and takes readers on brief detours into topics such as the postwar American auto industry, McCarthyism, the nation's highway system, and the decline of Main Street America. By the end of the 2,500-mile journey, you will have a new and heartfelt appreciation for America's last citizen-president.

Author : Matthew Algeo
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569767076
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure written by Matthew Algeo and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.

Author : Matthew Algeo
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556527772
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure written by Matthew Algeo and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Matthew Algeo's Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-08T22:59:00Z with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On January 20, 1953, President Harry Truman signed a letter to James A. Campbell, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the federal civil service system. He decried the recent reckless attacks on civil servants. #2 The inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president was a snub to Truman, who did not want to step foot inside the White House until he was the executive. Truman was furious, but he walked outside and greeted Eisenhower with all the fake warmth he could muster. #3 After a brief prayer, Eisenhower began his inaugural address. My fellow citizens, he intoned. The world and we have passed the midway point of a century of continuing challenge. We sense with all our faculties that forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. #4 The 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago saw Vice President Henry Wallace removed from the ticket. Truman was chosen to replace him, and the Truman-Roosevelt ticket won the election in a landslide.

Author : Margaret Truman
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446391757
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Buck Stops written by Margaret Truman and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of Margaret Truman's biography Harry S. Truman, here are the 33rd U.S. President's fascinating theories and opinions on leadership and leaders, plus his picks for the best and worst presidents--all in his bluntly honest "give-em-hell" style.

Author : Philip White
Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611686490
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whistle Stop written by Philip White and published by ForeEdge from University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Harry Truman was a disappointment to the Democrats, and a godsend to the Republicans. Every attempt to paint Truman with the grace, charm, and grandeur of Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been a dismal failure: Truman's virtues were simpler, plainer, more direct. The challenges he faced--stirrings of civil rights and southern resentment at home, and communist aggression and brinkmanship abroad--could not have been more critical. By the summer of 1948 the prospects of a second term for Truman looked bleak. Newspapers and popular opinion nationwide had all but anointed as president Thomas Dewey, the Republican New York Governor. Truman could not even be certain of his own party's nomination: the Democrats, still in mourning for FDR, were deeply riven, with Henry Wallace and Strom Thurmond leading breakaway Progressive and Dixiecrat factions. Finally, with ingenuity born of desperation, Truman's aides hit upon a plan: get the president in front of as many regular voters as possible, preferably in intimate settings, all across the country. To the surprise of everyone but Harry Truman, it worked. Whistle Stop is the first book of its kind: a micro-history of the summer and fall of 1948 when Truman took to the rails, crisscrossing the country from June right up to Election Day in November. The tour and the campaign culminated with the iconic image of a grinning, victorious Truman holding aloft the famous Chicago Tribune headline: "Dewey Defeats Truman."

Author : Matthew Algeo
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569768765
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The President Is a Sick Man written by Matthew Algeo and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched expose. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend's yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president's palate along with much of his upper jaw. When an enterprising reporter named E. J. Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied it and Edwards was consequently dismissed as a disgrace to journalism. Twenty-four years later, one of the president's doctors finally revealed the incredible truth, but many Americans simply would not believe it. After all, Grover Cleveland's political career was built upon honesty--his most memorable quote was "Tell the truth"--so it was nearly impossible to believe he was involved in such a brazen cover-up. This is the first full account of the disappearance of Grover Cleveland during that summer more than a century ago.

Author : Stephen Hunter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743260694
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Gunfight written by Stephen Hunter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November 1, 1950 -- an unseasonably hot afternoon in sleepy Washington, D.C. At 2:00 P.M. at his temporary residence in Blair House, President Harry Truman takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two Puerto Rican natives approach from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don't look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent guarding the president cannot guess is that under each man's coat is a 9mm German automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin's glory.

Author : Robert Klara
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250000270
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden White House written by Robert Klara and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1948, Harry Truman, President of the United States, almost fell through the ceiling of the Blue Room in a bathtub into a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution. A team of the nation's top architects was hastily assembled to inspect the White House, and upon seeing the state the old mansion was in, insisted the First Family be evicted immediately. What followed was the biggest home-improvement job the nation had ever seen"--

Author : D. M. Giangreco
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640121536
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soldier from Independence written by D. M. Giangreco and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the little-known facts of Harry Truman's remarkable military performance, as a soldier and as a politician, The Soldier from Independence adds a whole new dimension to the already fascinating character of the thirty-third president of the United States. D. M. Giangreco shows how, as a field artillery battery commander in World War I, Truman was already making the hard decisions that he knew to be right, regardless of personal consequences. Truman oversaw the conclusion of the Second World War, stood up to Stalin, and met the test of North Korea's invasion of the South. He also had the fortitude to defy Gen. Douglas MacArthur, one of America's most revered wartime leaders, and ultimately fired the Far East commander, often characterized as the American Caesar. Filling in the details behind these world-changing events, this military biography supplies a heretofore missing--and critical--chapter in the story of one of the nation's most important presidents. The Soldier from Independence recounts the World War I military adventure that would mark a turning point in the life of a humble man who would go on to become commander in chief.