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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

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.
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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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Posted: Aug-13-2009
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This review is written at the request of my father-in-law, Col. E.F. Smith, USAF (Ret.). Col. Smith was one of the first two presidential pilots, and was present for all presidential flights on the Sacred Cow and the Independence - as...

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A very fun book!

A very enjoyable, light piece of history. This is not a weighty tome of great history -- it's just a fun account of a bygone era. These days, it is inconceivable for a former American president to actually get behind the steering wheel...

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Posted: Aug-10-2009
The Last Honest Career Politician

Public figures in the mass media age are seldom real, being carefully crafted sound bites and YouTube projections, managed by their poll monitors and minders. It has not always been this way, and Truman was quite probably last public...

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Posted: Aug-03-2009
A very enjoyable read

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is about a road trip that Harry and Bess Truman took right after he left the presidency. While it is indeed based on the 19 day road trip that he took in 1953, it is much more than that. It includes...

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A very fun book!

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