Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography Of Harry S Truman

Description for PLAIN SPEAKING: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY S TRUMAN by Merle Miller: PLAIN SPEAKING, a book "so alive it will seem warm to the touch,: as one critic has put it, is uniquely important as political history. But its appeal as intimate biography is so irresistible, so human, it quite diverts one from the obvious fact that here is a President wholly revealed as we have never before had one revealed. Twenty years since he left the White House, after the year of Watergate of all years, that plainest speaker of all Harry S Truman comes to us alive, magically alive, in his own words and those closest to him, words masterfully elicited by Merle Miller. A windfall for all of us and for history, PLAIN SPEAKING derives from extraordinary circumstances. Write and indisputably fellow Midwesterner Merle Miller talked in total frankness with Harry S Truman for hundreds of hours spanning many months in the early sixties, recorded on tape and in notes. He also interviewed vir