From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing Road Trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile.
By the end of the 2,500-mile journey, you will have a new and heartfelt appreciation for America\'s last citizen-president..
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.
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.
In this lively history, author Matthew Algeo meticulously details how Truman\'s plan to blend in went wonderfully awry.
Hopefully incognito .
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.
No traveling press.
No Secret Service protection.
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.
From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing Road Trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile
