Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure 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…
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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure
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 traveling press. No Secret Service protection.
Hopefully incognito.In this lively history, author Matthew Algeo meticulously details how Truman's plan to blend in went wonderfully awry. 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. 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