Bess Wallace Truman (4 results)

Spiral Bound. Condition: Very Good. Plastic Spiral Bound Boards VERY GOOD small spot on top edge of pgs.

Condition: Good. No Jacket. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very poor condition. 180 pages. Lacking covers and the first 22 pages. The first and last several pages present are detached and heavily chipped. A note attached to the top cover states that "a piece of window blind has been used by owner for a more durable cover!" A separate note laid inside states "W H. Wallace, ' director, Bank of Independence (see ad, pg 88." This same note lists four recipes submitted by Bess Truman, as well as fourteen others submitted by Natalee Wallace, Mrs. D. W. Wallace, and Mary S. Wallace. Although there is significant wear to the contents, the listed recipes are intact.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 24 cm. xii, 593, [3] pages. Illustrations. List of Letters. Index. DJ torn and soiled. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Robert Hugh Ferrell (May 8, 1921 - August 8, 2018) was an American historian and a prolific author or editor of more than 60 books on a wide range of topics, including the U.S. presidency, World War I, and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy. One of the country's leading historians, Ferrell was widely considered the preeminent authority on the administration of Harry S. Truman, and also wrote books about half a dozen other 20th-century presidents. He was thought by many in the field to be the "dean of American diplomatic historians," a title he himself eschewed. Ferrell was an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Air Force in Washington, D.C., during the Korean War. The personal letters from Harry S. Truman (U.S. President from 1945-1953) to his wife Bess, revealing a great deal about policy changes and major international events and personalities. A collection of more than 600 letters that Harry S. Truman wrote to his beloved wife, Bess, from 1910 to 1959. Selected from the 1268 letters discovered in Bess's house after her death in 1982, this illustrated book provides an inside look at Truman's life, his thoughts, and his dreams. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Edward P. Diehl (Jacket Design) (illustrator).…