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Nonfiction books generally fare better. Listening to a celebrity read his or her own autobiography -- Kirk Douglas' The Ragman's Son, say -- is little different from sitting through a long, entertaining talk-show appearance. David McCullough's 1,117-page Truman is necessarily truncated in its six-hour audio adaptation. But as narrated by McCullough (who performed the same service for TV's The Civil War), it is a pleasure...
...began with the Theodore Roosevelt, class of1880, who introduced the idea of national healthcare. He proceeded to outline the proposals offormer presidents Harry S. Truman and Richard M.Nixon, and concluded with an overview of thecurrent debate on Capitol Hill and the optionsbefore Congress...
...Higgins was at the Rotary club in Chicago talking up the nomination of Harry Truman as Vice President. He wired his 30,000 workers / -- New Orleans' first fully integrated force of women, men and blacks -- a message that was read over the company's loudspeakers: "Now the work of our hands, our hearts and our heads is being put to the test...
...wanted children, and suffered through a miscarriage and the birth of a stillborn baby. Caroline was born in 1957. John Jr. was born in 1960. When she was later asked which First Lady she admired most, her reply was surprising -- Bess Truman. And the reason: her sensible way of bringing up her daughter Margaret in the White House glare...
...White House began to take on its historic designs; the place shone with new paint and gardens. She was ecstatic to find the original woodcuts for wallpaper ordered in the early days. New panels were printed. She relished the great view down toward the Mall from the Truman balcony. "This is what it is all about," she told a visitor, sweeping her arm from the Washington Monument to the Jefferson Memorial. "This is what these men fight so hard...