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Article: CANDOR AND COURAGE // A penetrating biography of Harry Truman
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 7, 1992
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Truman By David McCullough.
Simon & Schuster. $30.
After Harry Truman was elected vice president in 1944 under
Franklin Roosevelt, he lunched with him - the country boy and the
Hyde Park patrician. He saw FDR too shaky to pour cream in his
coffee. Hitler was all but licked, and 82 days later Roosevelt died
and Truman was president with enormous world problems to solve.
In Missouri he had been a good student except in spelling,
played the piano middling well, worked on his father's farm and was
nutty about his classmate Bess Wallace, whom he married after serving
in France as an artillery captain. Alas, his Kansas City clothing
store failed, but his machine-politician friend Tom ...