From the print and online editions of the nation's premier urban-policy magazine http://www.city-journal.org/cj-comments.xml?story=8539 Manhattan Institute Matt Truman wasn't entirely clean. I show when he had to give in to the boss and the consequence of getting psychosomatic illnesses. He hid out in hotels and wrote memos for posterity, called the Pickwick Papers. Do I ever call Truman a cracker-barrel character??? He was a mid-Western farmer populist. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#23155 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#23155 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:32:22 EDT Sorry. I didn't see the previous comment. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#19890 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#19890 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:55:57 EDT Excellent review. Enjoyed reading it. Form my money, Truman was one of the great Americans of the 20th century. One small point: Truman commanded a battery, not a battalion in the First World War. (An artillery battery is the equivalent of a company in the infantry.) http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#19889 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#19889 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:54:56 EDT Actually, Truman was a battery commander, not a battalion commander. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#19645 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#19645 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:21:31 EDT After the WWII H. Truman was the most hated U.S. politician in the USSR and its satellites. His honesty, responsibility and common sense attitudes were a painful nightmare for all the old guard stalinists.Only US political system could generate the sort of patriots the Communists eradicated in all countries they ruled or influenced. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#19640 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#19640 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:32:55 EDT President Truman was the last good Democrat president. I have an autographed photo of him in my den. He made "cracker-barrel" honest and to many, even honorable http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#19624 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8539#19624 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:36:13 EDT