Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure
Book description
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…
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This is an absolutely unique take on Harry Truman. And Bess, too! Matthew Algeo (oh, forgive me for the following cliche) brings history alive in his telling of an automobile trip from Missouri to New York City taken in 1953 by the former first couple.
It's about the Trumans, yes, but it's also about an America when a former president could actually get behind the wheel of a car and drive thousands of miles without a convoy of Secret Service tagging behind. Algeo describes the country as it was, and then brings us up to the current time explaining how…
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