Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed

by Harry Truman

Book Overview

Harry S. Truman made plain speaking his trademark, and it was a common belief that "Give 'em hell" Harry spared few with his words. However, this fascinating collection of 140 amusing, angry,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316712213
• ISBN13: 9780316712217
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Superb correspondence from our greatest writing president.

This is the Truman book you will truly enjoy-- after reading the 5,000 others. Harry S Truman was a real old-fashioned communicator who understood the value of honestly telling others what was on his mind (a great and thoughtful mind) at any appropriate juncture. He also had the good judgment-- once he had dictated and reviewed a letter to some notable-- to at times keep a particular letter from the mail, and save it exclusively for his own files. Truman spared himself countless embarrassments using this discipline.If you liked "Harry and Ike," you'll love Poen's book, which you have to search for. The work is worth it-- Truman was the last of the Mohicans, a president who believed in telling both the American public and those with whom he interacted his honest assessment of a situation.When I studied at the Truman Library in Independence in 1985, two years after first reading this book, I found the original correspondence. It is as priceless as Poen thoughtfully put it all together.