Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959
- ISBN-10
- 0826212034
- ISBN-13
- 9780826212030
- Series
- Dear Bess
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 593
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Author
- Harry S. Truman
Description
Once again available is the critically acclaimed Dear Bess, a collection of more than 600 letters that Harry S. Truman wrote to his beloved wife, Bess, from 1910 to 1959. Selected from 1,268 letters discovered in Bess's house after her death in 1982, this extraordinary collection provides an inside look at Truman's life, his thoughts, and his dreams.
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- 1984-10-01
- 608 pages
- Paperback
- W. W. Norton
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