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Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman

Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman

Miller, Merle

Paperback

Political BiographiesPresidents & Heads of StateFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0795300190
ISBN13: 9780795300196
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: Oct 11 2022
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Never has a President of the United States, or any head of state for that matter, been so totally revealed, so completely documented (Robert A. Arthur).

Plain Speaking is the bestselling book based on conversations between Merle Miller and the thirty-third President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. From these interviews, as well as others who knew him over the years, Miller transcribes Truman's feisty takes on everything from his personal life, military service, and political career to the challenges he faced in taking the office during the final days of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. Using a series of taped discussions from 1962 that never aired on television, Plain Speaking takes an opportunity to deliver exactly how Mr. Truman felt about the presidency, and his thoughts in his later years on his accomplishments and the legacy he left behind.

The values of Plain Speaking, on the whole, are those of the highest form of political communication: the bull session. As with all good bull sessions, what is said here ranges widely in quality and seriousness, as one should expect when dealing with a complex man. --The New York Times

Plain Speaking has a nostalgic, downhome quality of good friends gossiping over the back fence, or saying their piece of a twilight eve rocking on the porch--and if those fellas back in Washington have their secret machines running, well, they won't like what they overhear. Not one little bit. --Kirkus Reviews

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