Plain speaking an oral biography of Harry S. Truman /
Based on a series of interviews with the former President during the early sixties recounting his views of the historic times he lived in as well as his own life.
| Main Author: | Miller, Merle, 1919-1986. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[New York] : New York :
Berkley Pub. Corp. ; Distributed by G.P. Putnam's Sons,
[1974]
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| Physical Description: |
448 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- The happiest childhood
- Some ancestors
- John Anderson Truman
- Independence and the war between the states
- Banking days and farming
- On Battery D
- Harry Truman, Madge Gates Wallace, and the haberdashery
- The haberdashery
- Early politics
- The only defeat
- and then victory
- The first race for the Senate
- The 1940 campaign
- The Truman Committee
- The convention and the campaign of 1944
- The end and the beginning
- Israel
- On Herbert Hoover
- Los niños heroes
- My biggest mistake
- The bomb
- General Marshall and the Marshall Plan
- The 1948 victory
- The Korean decision
- Firing the general
- God bless America
- On generals in general
- A few further observations on "Ike"
- Five weak presidents
- What ruins a man
- Of painting and B. Berenson
- On evangelists
- An attempted assassination
- The dean resigns
- On J. Edgar Hoover
- The CIA
- Some friends and neighbors, too
- The library tour
- The cause and cure of hysteria
- Afterword.