Dear Harry by D M Giangreco
Americans are not particularly shy about letting politicians know what's on their minds, and, in Harry Truman, they believed that they had a president they could level with. He even sometimes responded personally to them--especially on subjects he felt strongly about. Today, it seems remarkable that a man who described the presidency as the most awesome job in the world would take the time to read and respond to White House mail. Truman, however, had an unquenchable thirst for what his everyday Americans were thinking, yet distrusted opinion polls. For him, the daily stack of troubles and dreams from places like Skull Bone, Kentucky; Boise, Idaho; and Conway, Florida, provided the next best poll after the voting booth. In Dear Harry, authors D. M. Giangreco and Kathryn Moore include a robust cross section of the thousands of messages sent to Truman. Juxtaposed with informative background essays, these letters provide an undiluted account of the greatest challenges confronting the U.S. during Truman's administration, including civil rights, the Marshall Plan, the formation of Israel, the atomic bomb, the McCarthy hearings, the Korean War, and the General McArthur's dismissal, which alone solicited more than 90,000 missives. While the majority of the letters are from private citizens, a sprinkling also come from the occasional bombastic senator and a few from the world figures, such as Winston Churchill (who liked to offer advice) and Chaim Weizmann. The names of some correspondents, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Upton Sinclair, Gene Tunney, would have been familiar to many of their fellow Americans, While others as diverse as Morey Amsterdam and Barry Goldwater would be better known to future generations.-
Attack on Taranto
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Fourty-Four Years Life of Hunter
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Custer Myth
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Four Years in Paradise
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War to the Knife
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Out of the Darkness
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Troopers with Custer
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Story of the Battles at Gettysburg
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Daniel Boone
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History of the U.S. Navy
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Peninsula Campaign 1862
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Operation Just Cause
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Don't Look Back
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55 Men
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A Yankee Spy in Richmond
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Legend into History and Did Custer Disobey Orders at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
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Discovering the Rommel Murder
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Last Train from Atlanta
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Grant'S Cavalryman
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The Wilderness Campaign
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Cracking the Zero Mystery
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Twenty-Fourth Michigan
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Leaders of the Lost Cause
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Patton and His Pistols
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Forty Years of American Life
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Dear Young Friend
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War of Vengeance
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With Crook at the Rosebud
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Articles of War
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World'S First Spaceship Shuttle
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Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters
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Unerring Fire
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Axis Grand Strategy
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In Enemy Hands
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My Old Man
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Hitler'S Wings of Death
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Work Commando 311/I
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Marne
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Up Came Hill
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Toward Distant Suns
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Lincoln'S Spymaster
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Project Space Station
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Inside the Army of the Potomac
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Lincoln'S Choice
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Space Trek
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Colt
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Space Station Friendship
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Unjust Enrichment
Award-winning author D. M. Giangreco is an editor for the U. S. Army’s professional journal, Military Review, and the author of numerous military history books. His most recent award was the Moncado Prize by the Society of Military History for his article Kathryn Moore, formerly a historical interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, teaches history in Lee's Summit, Missouri.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780811736787 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811736784 |
| Title | Dear Harry |
| Author | D M Giangreco |
| Series | Stackpole Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stackpole Books |
| Year published | 2017-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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