Books

March, 1974

By now you've probably heard about all those wonderfully blunt and candid things Harry S. Truman says in Merle Miller's Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman (Putnam's). And, of course, it sounds pretty good when you consider what we've got today. But Miller isn't content (and, certainly, neither was Truman) to make the undeniable point that the failed haberdasher from Missouri was a man with the common touch; an honest man who never profited from what could once be called, withou...