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Believing that Americans should understand their leadership, Harry Truman was the first American president to authorize an oral history of his life and times. In that vein, almost forty years ago, the Truman Library in the president s native Independence, Missouri, began the daunting task of compiling the words of Truman s contemporaries, including his senior aides, foreign policy and military advisors, political strategists, and close friends. Longtime Chicago journalist Steve Neal has edited twenty of these remarkable interviews for "HST: Memories of the Truman Years."

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"There are few places where the game of politics] is played with more intensity than in Chicago," notes Steve Neal, who has covered that city's politics since 1979.

The longtime political columnist for the" Chicago Sun-Times," Neal covered Jane M. Byrne's election in 1979 as the city's first woman mayor and Harold Washington's 1983 triumph as Chicago's first African American mayor. Even people who are not interested in politics are drawn to Neal's column because of his hard-hitting style and lucid insights. "Rolling on the River" is the first published collection of his work.

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