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One of the Best Books of 2009 -Washington Post "Utterly likable" -Christopher Buckley "[An] enchanting glimpse into a much simpler age" -Library Journal. On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other ex-president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his high school 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. Hopefully incognito. In this lively history, author Matthew Algeo meticulously details how Truman's plan to blend in went wonderfully awry. 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.
About the Author
When he's not writing his own biography in the third person, Matthew Algeo writes about unusual and interesting events in American history.His latest book is "All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia."Algeo is also a journalist. He has reported from four continents, and his stories have appeared on some of the most popular public radio programs in the United States.In addition to reporting and writing, Algeo has held jobs as a convenience store clerk, a gas station attendant, a Halloween costume salesman, and a proofreader. He also worked in a traveling circus (as a hot dog vendor; no acrobatics involved) .His wife Allyson is a U.S. Foreign Service officer. They live in Sarajevo with their daughter Zaya (and two cats) .
