Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman by Merle Miller

Plain Speaking:  An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman by Merle Miller is a 448-page hardcover published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1974.  The dust jacket has a closed tear along the top of the spine and some rubbing and shelf wear along the top and bottom edges.  The dark navy cloth bound hardcover has some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine.  Inside, the condition is near mint, with crisp clean pages and tight binding.  Book Summary Plain Speaking, a book "so alive it will seem warm to the touch," as one critic 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 there is a President wholly revealed as we have never before had one revealed.  Twenty years after 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, wo