Whistle Stop : How 31,000 Miles of Train Travel, 352 Speeches, and a Little Midwest Gumption Saved the Presidency of Harry Truman (Paperback)

from bks1953

"Whistle Stop," author Phillip White states in the Introduction, is not an attempt at reciting the complete history of the unusual 1948 presidential campaign. Rather, Mr. White chooses to focus on two aspects. He first "explore[s] the microcosm of [President Truman's] Whistle Stop Tour against a ...

from stevrbee

I enjoyed this book alot. If you are a fan of presidential campaign history or of mid-twentieth-century America I think you would enjoy this book too. The book was a bit dry in parts, and jumped right into the 1948 campaign without a lot of background or context. So your enjoyment might depend on...

from oldman

I thoroughly enjoyed Whistle Stop: How 31,000 miles of Train Travel....... It began with the setting of the "Office" back home in Washington DC and who were the primary players gathering information for the traveling president. Of course this is all in the setting of deep distrust of the governme...

from TLCrawford

Harry Truman's Whistle Stop Tour is part of American lore that I have heard about all my life but never, even while earning a degree in history, learned much about. Philip White's book, "Whistle stop : how 31,000 miles of train travel, 352 speeches, and a little Midwest gumption saved the preside...

from nevadaannie

I have always been a fan of Harry Truman and this book made me like him even more. I was aware of many things about him, including the fact that Dewey was supposed to have beat him in the 1948 election, but I didn't know much about the campaign. Mostly, I found this book very interesting and the ...