plain speaking an oral biography of harry s truman

PLAIN SPEAKING is an evocation of one of America's great Presidents. What might have been a television series has instead eventuated as a book that re-creates both a splendid man and the historic times he lived through and so often helped to mold. Truman from his earliest childhood in Independence, Missouri, through his years in Washington. He also interviewed virtually all those close to Mr. Truman for hundreds of hours spanning many months in the early sixties, recorded on tape and in notes. Writer and indisputably fellow Midwesterner Merle Miller talked in total frankness with Harry S. A windfall for all of us and for history, PLAIN SPEAKING derives from extraordinary circumstances. Truman comes to us alive, magically alive, in his own words and those closest to him, words masterfully elicited by Merle Miller. Twenty years since he left the White House, after the year of Watergate of all years, that plainest speaker of all Harry S. But its appeal as intimate biography is so irresistible, so human, it quite diverts one from the obvious fact that here is a President wholly revealed as we have never before had one revealed. XX : PLAIN SPEAKING, a book 'so alive it will seem warm to the touch,' as one critic has put it, is uniquely important as political history.

Please contact me before buying if you do not live in the US. Please note that with packaging this shipment will weigh nearly two pounds, so additional postage will be necessary for any shipments outside the US. The dust jacket is intact and in fair condition with edge chipping, tears, wrinkles, and age browning inside. The spine is bumped at the top but only lightly at the bottom. The black cloth cover is in very good condition. The gift inscription, from a mother to her son in 1974, is on the first pastedown. The author signed his name on the first free endpaper. The text block is in fine condition with no tears, marks, or dog ears, but there are two very small wrinkles on page 103. TRUMAN by Merle Miller, 2nd impression, signed by author. PLAIN SPEAKING: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY S.

Plain speaking an oral biography of harry s truman