Bess truman biography authors

If you enjoy history, and politics, you may enjoy this book.
Customers find the book provides an in-depth biography of Bess Truman and insights into Harry Truman's political career.
The book helps readers understand the character of Bess Truman better, providing an endearing profile and eye-opening view from behind the hype.

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Bess W. Truman

Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry S. Truman, was born on February 17, 1924 in Independence, Missouri. She graduated from George Washington University in 1946. She was also known as Margaret Truman or Margaret Daniel. She was an American singer who later became the successful author of a series of murder mysteries and a number of works on U.S. First Ladies and First Families, including a biography of her father, President Harry S. Truman. The only child of Harry Truman and First Lady Bess Truman; she was called "Margaret" for most of her life. Truman made her concert debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1947 and her first television appearance on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town. She substituted for Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person, and later had her own radio shows (Weekday in the 1950s and Authors in the News in the 1960s). She was active with organizations such as the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation and the Truman Centennial Committee. She published her first book, Souvenir: Margaret Truman's Own Story in 1956. She also wro

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Bess Truman

July 5, 2018

This biography of Bess Truman, written by her daughter Margaret, was drawn from over 1000 personal letters as well, of course, from personal knowing. Several of the letters are from Bess Truman’s personal friends and from her family but by a huge margin the greatest number are from her husband, Harry. He wrote her prolifically – when he was overseas in the army, when he was in the U.S. Senate, when he was in the White House, whenever he was away, when she was celebrating a birthday or their wedding anniversary. Sometimes he unburdened himself about affairs of state, often he sought her advice, always he declared how much he loved her and how he still thought of her as the prettiest girl in the world.

Not too many of her letters to him are preserved. After they left the White House and retired to their home in Independence, MO, they began sorting through their memorabilia. Harry came upon Bess throwing her letters into the burning fireplace. He said, “Don’t you think you should save them? Think of history.” “I am,” was her retort as she continued to throw

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Bess Wallace Truman: Harry's White House "Boss" by Sara L. Sale

Thrust into the world of Washington politics and power, Bess Wallace Truman steadfastly remained what she wanted to be: a representative of middle-American values and virtues. She ran the White House as she ran her own home, attending personally to details that many first ladies had left to the staff. She answered mail in longhand, took charge of bookkeeping, and carefully watched expenses. President Harry S. Truman fondly called his wife "The Boss." The product of a small town aristocracy with nineteenth-century manners and morals, Bess Truman was repelled by personal publicity, even after ten years as a senator's wife. A woman's place in public, she observed, was "to sit beside her husband, be silent and be sure her hat is on straight." Sara Sale now casts a modern light on this traditional first lady through the first scholarly biography of Bess.

Unlike Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess did not want to be a public figure and struggled to keep the press happy. But Sale shows that, although Mrs. Truman avoided