SMALL TOWN BOY MAKES GOOD
THE MAN OF INDEPENDENCE, by Jonathan Daniels; Gollancz. English. price, 18/-. ‘[ HIs is a biography of President Tru‘man. Truman has done an honest’s day’s work all his life, whether as farmer, soldier, business man, county judge (an administrative, not judicial, local body post), senator and President. I say honest purposely, because his early links with the corrupt Pendergast machine in Kansas City failed to smear him. The reflection one draws from this straightforward and mildly tedious book is that Truman’s appeal to the American people is based on his closeness to it-in experience and ability. He is the average man in the White House and re-warms the dreams of a million mothers that their son will grow up and one day be President. Truman’s record as chairman of the Senate’s Defence Programme Committee showed that he had aboveaverage administrative ability and he owed his nomination as..Vice-President to a recognition of this. To get back in 1948 was pure. Harry Truman: the average man and the average voter had the
laugh on the world.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 15
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180SMALL TOWN BOY MAKES GOOD New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 15
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