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Truman
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SECOND READING: The degree of difficulty to get five stars is considerable. I've read it before, so there's no novelty. This isn't Churchill or Kennedy with a writer's sense of exhortation to his times. The book is huge, and the hour is late, at least with any ambitions toward one's book count. Yet, by David McCullough's faithfulness, Truman's voice, Truman's very briskness comes through the whole thing. I will be visiting again.
VERY GENERAL RECOLLECTIONS OF FIRST READING: The fact that he read every book in his town's library speaks to his ability to grow where he was planted, college education or not. His ascension as a politicall late-bloomer who used his status to serve rather than pad his own ego is also inspirational -- and rare.
VERY GENERAL RECOLLECTIONS OF FIRST READING: The fact that he read every book in his town's library speaks to his ability to grow where he was planted, college education or not. His ascension as a politicall late-bloomer who used his status to serve rather than pad his own ego is also inspirational -- and rare.
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“The feeling in surviving accounts is of noisy good company and wild scenery and of “history� as an immediate and entirely human experience.”
― Truman
― Truman
“Truman said simply, “Brave men don’t belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.”
― Truman
― Truman
“An economist,� he told them, “is a man who wears a watch chain with a Phi Beta Kappa key at one end and no watch at the other.”
― Truman
― Truman
Reading Progress
Finished Reading
July 24, 2011
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December 9, 2021
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Started Reading
December 13, 2021
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19.0%
"As the equivalent of the head County Commissioner, Truman considered ideas for the new County Courthouse by driving around the country at his own expense. He was so thorough that, for the statue of Andrew Jackson to oversee the affairs of Jackson County, Truman drove to the Hermitage to measure Jackson's clothes."
December 15, 2021
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52.0%
"““The responsibility of a great state is to serve and not to dominate the world.”�
Truman in his first speech to congress as president. He also invoked king Solomon‘s wish to have God‘s help in guiding such a great people.
� Truman by David McCullough
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Truman in his first speech to congress as president. He also invoked king Solomon‘s wish to have God‘s help in guiding such a great people.
� Truman by David McCullough
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December 17, 2021
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52.0%
"David McCullough can pick details. Do you want to know Bess Truman? One of the White House support staff said she could laugh like she invented laughter. Yet she was so disciplined that she wrote thank you notes for Christmas cards."
December 19, 2021
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74.0%
"Truman often complained colorfully of the incessant busywork of the presidency. Nevertheless, he insisted on Personally signing all 7000 responses to well-wishers after he survived an assassination attempt."
December 19, 2021
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80.0%
"The physical structure of the White House was in text bad shape when Truman oversaw a renovation that the contractor said he could prove mathematically it shouldn’t be standing."
December 20, 2021
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88.0%
"“Free speech is a restraint on government; not an incitement to the citizen. Now, if ever, our vocal cords ought to be played on the keyboard of our minds.
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson advising restraint from his old boss, and now fast friend, on political commentary from retirement."
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson advising restraint from his old boss, and now fast friend, on political commentary from retirement."
December 20, 2021
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Finished Reading
