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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

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by Matthew Algeo


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  Index

  Italicized page numbers denote photographs

  A. E. Staley (company), 67

  Abbott, George, 155

  Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, 59–60, 213

  Acheson, Dean

  college roommate of Cole Porter, 144

  tributes to Truman, 121–22

  Truman correspondence to, 219

  with Truman in Washington, 116

  Truman’s last day as president, 13

  Adams, Edith, 155

  Adams, John, 224

  Adams, John Quincy, 11

  African American music, 195–96

  African Americans, 44–46, 90, 96–97, 134, 194

  Air Force One, 189, 190

  Albertazzie, Ralph, 187

  Allen, Lewis, 69

  American Airlines, 188

  American Legion convention, 138

  American Road Builders Association, 49

  Amidon, Edna, 183

  Anan, Kofi, 164

  Anderson, Charles Arthur, 212

  Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 120

  Anti-Defamation League, 199

  Archer Daniels Midland, 67

  Architectural Record, The, 63

  Armstrong, Louis, 197

  Arnold, Kenneth, 174–75

  Astor, John Jacob, IV, 151

  Astor, William Waldorf, 151

  Automobile Club of New York, 165

  automobiles

  air-conditioning in, 40

  of Chrysler collectors, 30–33

  death statistics due to, 36–37

  driving accidents and safety issues, 37, 41–42, 82, 171

  first cross-country trip in, 87

  fuel efficiency, 61

  growth of industry, 89

  1917 cost of, 89

  postwar demand and production statistics, 90

  of Truman, 26–30, 27, 28, 32, 39–40, 40, 219, 233–38, 237

  WWII rationing of, 90

  “Barbara Frietchie” (Whittier), 110

  Barker, Warren, 154

  Barrow, Clyde, 63

  Barry, Marion, 114–15

  Bastian, Bob, 97

  Baton Rouge bus boycott, 45–47

  Baughman, U. E., 36, 37

  Beasley, Fred, 182

  Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, 134, 138–39

  Berlin, Irving, 64

  Berliner, Emile, 196

  Bernstein, Leonard, 154

  Beveridge, Mark, 29–30

  Blair, Frank, 157

  Blauvelt, James, 150–51

  Bliss, Henry, 36

  book contracts, 25–26, 54. See also memoirs

  Bourbon, Illinois, 76

  Bouvier, Jacqueline Lee, 126

 

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