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The Autobiography of
Harry S. Truman
Edited by Robert H. Ferrell
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORDO
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Copyright © 1980 by Robert H. Ferrell
Published by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849, Niwot, Colorado 80544
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College,
Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver,
University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State
College of Colorado.
ISBN: 0-87081-091-x (paper)
Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 80-66304
Printed in the United States of America
Designed by Bruce Campbell
While the portions of this work created by the editor have been copyrighted, it should be noted that Mr. Truman's
writings have been dedicated to the people of the United States and are therefore in the public domain.
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I have been reading a book about me This book is supposed to be an educational one for young people. It contains
more misstatements and false quotations than it contains facts and true statements from people purported to have
been interviewed.
I've seen several books and pamphlets about my life, career, ambitions and accomplishments and most of them
contain glaring errors. If Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus, Plutarch, Greene, Guizot, McCauley [sic], The Rise and
Fall of the Roman Empire are no more factual than the stories about me so far, then history and biography are just
lies and reporters' readable stories and not facts. I've read somewhere that Herodotus said a good historian makes
the facts fit the event to make good reading.
To save too many knowing spreaders of misinformation from going to hell on the present biography I guess I'll have
to state the few interesting facts of my life without the introspective trimmings with which most so-called writers and
half-baked essayists clutter up the printed page.
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Contents
Foreword
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Acknowledgments
xiii
I
Early Years
1
II
Kansas City
15
III
Back on the Farm
25
IV
The First World War
39
V
County Judge
53
VI
Senator
65
VII
My Relationship with T.J. Pendergast
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Nomination for Vice President
85
IX
President of the United States
97
X
Independence, Missouri
107
XI
Random Thoughts in Retirement
113
Notes
123
Sources
139
Index
147
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