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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure
Written by Matthew Algeo
Narrated by Lesa Lockford
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This lively history meticulously details how President Truman's plan to blend in while on an incognito wedding-anniversary trip went wonderfully awry.
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Matthew Algeo
Matthew Algeo is an award-winning journalist who has reported from three continents for public radio’s All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Morning Edition. He is the author of The President Is a Sick Man and Last Team Standing.
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