Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road TripChicago Review Press, 01 մյս, 2009 թ. - 256 էջ 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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3 Hannibal Missouri June 19 1953 | 39 |
4 Decatur Illinois June 1920 1953 | 57 |
5 Indianapolis Indiana June 20 1953 | 75 |
6 Wheeling West Virginia June 2021 1953 | 85 |
7 Frostburg Maryland June 21 1953 | 99 |
12 Columbus Ohio July 67 1953 | 181 |
13 Richmond Indiana July 7 1953 | 193 |
14 Indianapolis Indiana July 78 1953 | 203 |
15 St Louis Missouri July 8 1953 | 211 |
Epilogue | 217 |
Postscript | 227 |
Afterword | 233 |
Acknowledgments | 239 |
8 Washington DC June 2126 1953 | 111 |
9 Philadelphia Pennsylvania June 2627 1953 | 133 |
10 New York New York June 27July 5 1953 | 141 |
11 Pennsylvania or Abducted July 56 1953 | 165 |
Sources | 241 |
Bibliography | 245 |
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