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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Believing that Americans should understand their leadership, Harry Truman was the first American president to authorize an oral history of his life...
