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Title
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The Place Where All Men Strive To Be: Harry S. Truman on the Eve of the 1934 Senate Campaign
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Description
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Two-part series detailing Harry S. Truman's early political career including his two terms as Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri. In the early 1930s Truman "began to write long memorandums to himself, or to posterity." Because he wrote his notes on stationery from the Pickwick Hotel, they are sometimes called the "Pickwick Papers." Article talks about Thomas J. Pendergast as the Democratic political boss of Kansas City and with whose support Truman declared candidacy for the Senate in 1934, his first political office, and won.
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Date
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2004
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
