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Author | : D. M. Giangreco |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811768740 |
Americans are not shy about letting politicians know what’s on their minds, and, in Harry Truman, they believed that they had a president they could level with. He even sometimes responded personally to them—especially on subjects he felt strongly about. Today, it seems remarkable that a man who described the presidency as “the most awesome job in the world” would take the time to read and respond to White House mail.Truman, however, had an unquenchable thirst for what his “everyday Americans” were thinking, yet distrusted opinion polls. For him, the daily stack of mail provided the next best poll after the voting booth. Authors Giangreco and Moore include a robust cross section of the thousands of messages sent to Truman. Juxtaposed with informative background essays, these letters provide an undiluted account of the greatest challenges confronting the U.S. during Truman’s administration, including civil rights, the Marshall Plan, the formation of Israel, the atomic bomb, the McCarthy hearings, the Korean War, and the General McArthur’s dismissal, which alone solicited more than 90,000 missives. While the majority of the letters are from private citizens, others come from correspondents, the occasional bombastic senator, and a few from the world figures.
Author | : Clifton Truman Daniel |
Publisher | : Truman State Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781935503255 |
One evening in 1955, Harry Truman came home to find Bess burning her letters to him. “What are you doing? Think of history,” he said. “Oh, I have,” she said and tossed in another stack. Bess Truman thought her business was hers and nobody else's, so she destroyed her half of the more than 2,600 letters she and Harry exchanged during their courtship and marriage. While making an inventory of the Truman home in the 1980s, archivists discovered 184 letters Bess had missed. Her grandson Clifton Truman Daniel shares them here, along with portions of Harry's responses, family photographs, and stories. These letters provide new insight into the lives and personalities of Bess and Harry Truman during the formative years of his political life. Despite Bess's shy and self-effacing manner, her lively correspondence offers a glimpse of a caring and witty woman who shared her concerns about family, politics, and day-to-day activities with her husband.
Author | : Harry S. Truman |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780826212030 |
This correspondence, which encompasses Truman's courtship of his wife, his service in the senate, his presidency, and after, reveals not only the character of Truman's mind but also a shrewd observer's view of American politics.
Author | : Norman Krasna |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : American drama (Comedy) |
ISBN | : 9780822202882 |
One of the final works in the nine play cycle entitled The Orphan's Home, which follows the lives of the Robedaux family of Harrison, Texas. Others in the cycle include Lily Dale, Courtship, Roots in a Parched Ground, The Widow claire, Valentine's Day
Author | : George Melville Baker |
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Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : American drama |
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Author | : Trollope |
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Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Total Pages | : 1160 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1884 |
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