Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman,9781579124373

Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman

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ISBN13: 9781579124373
ISBN10: 1579124372
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-01-30
Publisher(s): Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Preface 1(28)
The Happiest Childhood
29(17)
Some Ancestors
46(7)
John Anderson Truman
53(6)
Independence and the War Between the States
59(9)
Banking Days and Farming
68(9)
On Battery D
77(12)
Harry Truman, Madge Gates Wallace, and the Haberdashery
89(6)
The Haberdashery
95(6)
Early Politics
101(12)
The Only Defeat---and Then Victory
113(13)
The First Race for the Senate
126(15)
The 1940 Campaign
141(10)
The Truman Committee
151(9)
The Convention and the Campaign of 1944
160(21)
The End and the Beginning
181(23)
Israel
204(6)
On Herbert Hoover
210(3)
Los Ninos Heroes
213(2)
My Biggest Mistake
215(2)
The Bomb
217(5)
General Marshall and the Marshall Plan
222(15)
The 1948 Victory
237(16)
The Korean Decision
253(22)
Firing the General
275(21)
God Bless America
296(10)
On Generals in General
306(19)
A Few Further Observations on ``Ike''
325(9)
Five Weak Presidents
334(8)
What Ruins a Man
342(4)
Of Painting and B. Berenson
346(3)
On Evangelists
349(1)
An Attempted Assassination
350(3)
The Dean Resigns
353(20)
On J. Edgar Hoover
373(1)
The CIA
374(2)
Some Friends and Neighbors, Too
376(11)
The Library Tour
387(6)
The Cause and Cure of Hysteria
393(13)
Afterword
406(9)
Index 415(14)
Acknowledgment 429

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