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On the Horizon:
Truman and the Idea of the Common Man
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The Truman memoirs are devoted mainly to Truman’s political career, which of course is as it should be. But the book is not strictly a political autobiography. Truman tells us a good deal about his life apart from politics—and we must remember that he was thirty-eight years old before he got involved even in local politics. Some of his more personal reminiscences are unconvincing. For example, in writing about his childhood (which he does “without any introspective trimmings”) he sees himself as a less mischievous, untroubled Tom Sawyer, a carefree, rough-and-tumble American farm boy who was forever having the time of his life:
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