Dear Harry: Letters to President TrumanRowman & Littlefield, 01/08/2019 - 544 من الصفحات Americans are not 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 mail provided the next best poll after the voting booth. Authors Giangreco and 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, others come from correspondents, the occasional bombastic senator, and a few from the world figures. |
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Letters to President Truman D. M. Giangreco, Kathryn Moore. to understand and accept the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall ... letter to a music critic who found fault with daughter Margaret's singing. And he was less than thoughtful when he ...
Letters to President Truman D. M. Giangreco, Kathryn Moore. to understand and accept the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall ... letter to a music critic who found fault with daughter Margaret's singing. And he was less than thoughtful when he ...
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... letter—no waiting to cast a ballot with limited, unsatisfactory choices, and no politician or political party to “not get it quite right.” The letters, telegrams, and postcards used in this book come almost exclusively from the files of ...
... letter—no waiting to cast a ballot with limited, unsatisfactory choices, and no politician or political party to “not get it quite right.” The letters, telegrams, and postcards used in this book come almost exclusively from the files of ...
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... letters from parents whose sons had died in Korea to questions from schoolchildren about Truman's reading habits. The physical form of the letters ranges from the child's poorly written scrawl to formal ones, perfect in every way ...
... letters from parents whose sons had died in Korea to questions from schoolchildren about Truman's reading habits. The physical form of the letters ranges from the child's poorly written scrawl to formal ones, perfect in every way ...
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Letters to President Truman D. M. Giangreco, Kathryn Moore. The content of Dear Harry is driven nearly as much by ... letter may touch on items as diverse as the assassination attempt by Puerto Rican nationals, a razor-tongued comment ...
Letters to President Truman D. M. Giangreco, Kathryn Moore. The content of Dear Harry is driven nearly as much by ... letter may touch on items as diverse as the assassination attempt by Puerto Rican nationals, a razor-tongued comment ...
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... letters; these also have been corrected silently. Where large numbers of misspellings are characteristic of a letter, we have retained them without note and generally have tried to avoid jarring additions to letters by adding bracketed ...
... letters; these also have been corrected silently. Where large numbers of misspellings are characteristic of a letter, we have retained them without note and generally have tried to avoid jarring additions to letters by adding bracketed ...
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AID TO GREECE AND TURKEY PALESTINE AND THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL CHURCHILL CORRESPONDENCE THE MARSHALL PLAN TH... | 130 |
PERSONAL QUESTIONS SUGGESTIONS LOOKALIKES NUT MAIL | 174 |
THE MACARTHUR FIRING | 231 |
THE ATOM BOMB | 279 |
KOREA | 327 |
JOE MCCARTHY MARINE CORPS PROPAGANDA MACHINE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT THE HUME AFFAIR | 360 |
THREATS FRIENDS ATOM BOMB LEAVING OFFICE | 426 |
NOTES | 483 |
CORRESPONDENCE INDEX | 490 |
INDEX | 501 |
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