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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip Paperback - 2011

by Matthew Algeo

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From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.

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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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  • Title Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
  • Author Matthew Algeo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chicago Review Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2011-04-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781569767078 / 1569767076
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.89 x 6.12 x 0.58 in (22.58 x 15.54 x 1.47 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Presidents - United States, Truman, Harry S.
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011500611
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Matthew Algeo is an award-winning journalist who has reported from three continents for public radio's All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Morning Edition. He is the author of The President Is a Sick Man and Last Team Standing.

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