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Also by Matthew Algeo:

The President Is a Sick Man, May 2011
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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure, May 2009
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Last Team Standing, October 2006
Hardcover

HARRY TRUMAN'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
By: Matthew Algeo

The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

Chicago Review Press
May 2009
On Sale: May 1, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 1556527772
EAN: 9781556527777
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his childhood sweetheart Bess, off to visit old friends, take in a Broadway play, celebrate their wedding anniversary in the Big Apple, and blow a bit of the money he’d just received to write his memoirs. Hopefully incognito.

In this lively history, author Matthew Algeo meticulously details how Truman’s plan to blend in went wonderfully awry. Fellow diners, bellhops, cabbies, squealing teenagers at a Future Homemakers of America convention, and one very by-the-book Pennsylvania state trooper--all unknowingly conspired to blow his cover. Algeo revisits the Trumans’ route, staying at the same hotels and eating at the same diners, and takes readers on brief detours into topics such as the postwar American auto industry, McCarthyism, the nation’s highway system, and the decline of Main Street America. By the end of the 2,500-mile journey, you will have a new and heartfelt appreciation for America’s last citizen-president.

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