Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman

by Miller, Merle

• ISBN13: 9781579124373
• ISBN10: 1579124372
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	1	(28)
The Happiest Childhood	29	(17)
Some Ancestors	46	(7)
John Anderson Truman	53	(6)
Independence and the War Between the States	59	(9)
Banking Days and Farming	68	(9)
On Battery D	77	(12)
Harry Truman, Madge Gates Wallace, and the Haberdashery	89	(6)
The Haberdashery	95	(6)
Early Politics	101	(12)
The Only Defeat---and Then Victory	113	(13)
The First Race for the Senate	126	(15)
The 1940 Campaign	141	(10)
The Truman Committee	151	(9)
The Convention and the Campaign of 1944	160	(21)
The End and the Beginning	181	(23)
Israel	204	(6)
On Herbert Hoover	210	(3)
Los Ninos Heroes	213	(2)
My Biggest Mistake	215	(2)
The Bomb	217	(5)
General Marshall and the Marshall Plan	222	(15)
The 1948 Victory	237	(16)
The Korean Decision	253	(22)
Firing the General	275	(21)
God Bless America	296	(10)
On Generals in General	306	(19)
A Few Further Observations on ``Ike''	325	(9)
Five Weak Presidents	334	(8)
What Ruins a Man	342	(4)
Of Painting and B. Berenson	346	(3)
On Evangelists	349	(1)
An Attempted Assassination	350	(3)
The Dean Resigns	353	(20)
On J. Edgar Hoover	373	(1)
The CIA	374	(2)
Some Friends and Neighbors, Too	376	(11)
The Library Tour	387	(6)
The Cause and Cure of Hysteria	393	(13)
Afterword	406	(9)
Index	415	(14)
Acknowledgment	429