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- ISBN
- 9781569767078
- Book Title
- Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure : the True Story of a Great American Road Trip
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Essays & Travelogues
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 12.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1569767076
ISBN-13
9781569767078
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99548493
Product Key Features
Book Title
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure : the True Story of a Great American Road Trip
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
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"Matthew Algeo recalls [my grandparents'] memorable trip beautifully and with the sense of humor it deserves." — Clifton Truman Daniel , grandson of Harry S. Truman, " Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure resonates Aaron Copeland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man'—brassy, bright, energetic, brief and declaratively American." — Washington Times, "Enlivened by Algeo"s endeavors to see the places where Truman stopped, this is an engaging historical sidebar." -- Booklist Online, " Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure resonates Aaron Copeland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man'--brassy, bright, energetic, brief and declaratively American." -- Washington Times, "Algeo chronicles this unlikely excursion in great and wonderful detail. . . . [An] enchanting glimpse into a much simpler age." --Library Journal, "Algeo chronicles this unlikely excursion in great and wonderful detail. . . . [An] enchanting glimpse into a much simpler age." -- Library Journal, "Enlivened by Algeo"s endeavors to see the places where Truman stopped, this is an engaging historical sidebar." --Booklist Online, "Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure resonates Aaron Copeland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man'--brassy, bright, energetic, brief and declaratively American." --Washington Times, "Matthew Algeo recalls [my grandparents'] memorable trip beautifully and with the sense of humor it deserves." -- Clifton Truman Daniel , grandson of Harry S. Truman, " Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure resonates Aaron Copeland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man'--brassy, bright, energetic, brief and declaratively American." -- Washington Times, "Matthew Algeo recalls [my grandparents'] memorable trip beautifully and with the sense of humor it deserves." --Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of Harry S. Truman, "Enlivened by Algeo"s endeavors to see the places where Truman stopped, this is an engaging historical sidebar." -- Booklist Online, Algeo chronicles this unlikely excursion in great and wonderful detail. . . . [An] enchanting glimpse into a much simpler age." -- Library Journal, "Enlivened by Algeo"s endeavors to see the places where Truman stopped, this is an engaging historical sidebar." — Booklist Online, "Matthew Algeo recalls [my grandparents'] memorable trip beautifully and with the sense of humor it deserves." -- Clifton Truman Daniel , grandson of Harry S. Truman
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973.918092 B
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22
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