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Local author Dr. James Currie will discuss his book, Missouri Mule : How Harry Truman's Stubbornness and Determination Helped Win World War II and Led him to the Presidency.
This book traces Truman’s rise from Senate backbencher in 1940 to Roosevelt’s running mate in 1944. Why did FDR choose Truman over all others? The book goes on to expose government bungling and wastefulness to the detriment of efforts to defeat the Nazis and the Japanese. As chair of the primary Senate oversight committee that investigated our country’s World War II defense build-up and expenditures, Harry Truman displayed all the best characteristics of the Missouri mules he had worked with as a young man on his farm: the stubbornness and determination that helped us win the war and made him one of our best Presidents.