Dear Harry

Truman'S Mailroom, 1945-1953

D. M. Giangreco, Kathryn Moore (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

544 Seiten

2017
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
978-0-8117-3678-7 (ISBN)

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Americans are not particularly 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 troubles and dreams from places like Skull Bone, Kentucky; Boise, Idaho; and Conway, Florida, provided the next best poll after the voting booth.
In Dear Harry, authors D. M. Giangreco and Kathryn 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 adm

Award-winning author D. M. Giangreco is an editor for the U. S. Army’s professional journal, Military Review, and the author of numerous military history books. His most recent award was the Moncado Prize by the Society of Military History for his article Kathryn Moore, formerly a historical interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, teaches history in Lee's Summit, Missouri.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2018
Verlagsort	Mechanicsburg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 233 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8117-3678-4 / 0811736784
ISBN-13	978-0-8117-3678-7 / 9780811736787
Zustand	Neuware