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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

By: Matthew Algeo
Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
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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 listeners 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.

©2009 Matthew Algeo (P)2023 Dreamscape Media
Americas Politics & Activism Presidents & Heads of State Travel Writing & Commentary United States Heartfelt
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Did not like listening to the author’s own journey. Such as the search for a car similar to the one driven by the Trumans. The parts of the book which discussed Harry’s presidency and post presidency as well as their actual trip were good.

Nice story, but too many details about the author’s oun trip.

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