Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
| Date: 14 April 2011, 03:22
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Merle Miller: This is a book about Harry Truman, and most of it is in his own words and the words of people who knew him before he went to Washington and after and while he was there. It should be said instantly that the words were not spoken with a book in mind. They were spoken in the hope that out of them would come ideas for God-alone-knew how many television programs that would explain to the eager millions what it had been like to be President and what as President Mr. Truman had done. As Mr. Truman used to say, "I'm mostly interested in the children. The old folks, mostly they're too set in their ways and too stubborn to learn anything new, but I want the children to know what we've got here in this country and how we got it, and then if they want to go ahead and change it, why, that's up to them. But I want them to understand what it's all about first. I want to make a historical record that has never been made before in the history of this country, and if it turns out all right, I'll be very happy indeed."
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"Plain Speaking is the real thing; there has never been a book like it and never will be again. Not that future journalists Won't be capable of matching Miller's efforts, but there will not ever again be a subject like Harry Truman, at least not in the White House." Robert Alan Aurthur, Esquire "... in a time of national psychic dislocation and trauma,' PLAIN SPEAKING prowdes an instant and badly needed rehabilitation from the spreading sickness of cynicism; it restores us to our senses, to what we know, if for the moment only in our bones, to be true and fight." Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Magazine "How do you describe a book whose every page jumps at you with deliciously simple language about world-shaking events that happened several decades ago but which still affect all of us?" Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
"This is the Truman idiom, vigorous, without cant or inhibitions and valid for no one could possibly make it up. It's a rich taste of a better past." John Kenneth Galbraith
"I know of no other work in which an ex-President speaks so bluntly of big experiences from childhood to retirement, so candidly of his contemporaries and successors... "'
Los Angeles Times "At a time when the White House seems to be dominated by the ethics of the advertising industry, it is a joy to go back to Truman _and his simple creed. Miller has provided a superb portrait of a feisty President." John P. Roche, Saturday Review/World "This is the most refreshing book' that has ever been written about an American president." Christian Science Monitor "Harry Truman talked into Merle Miller's tape recorder, and the result is almost as fascinating as the White House transcripts." --The New York Times Book Review
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