Summary Of Truman's Excellent Adventure

Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure. Chicago Review Press, Chicago: 2009. Many former presidents often faded into obscurity and, more often than not back then, were poor after their presidency. Harry Truman is a prime example of these types of presidents, but he did something that set him apart from these other presidents. He took a road trip with his wife on an army pension of just $112.56. Told chronologically and written with a good amount of humor and historical details, Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo follows Truman’s trip across the country and is just an excellent book. Algeo describes Truman and all the other people in the book in such an easy to understand, endearing, and humorous way, it is almost