Books by Matthew Algeo and Complete Book Reviews

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

Matthew Algeo, Author . Chicago Review $24.95 (262p) ISBN 978-1-55652-777-7

Public radio reporter Algeo (Last Team Standing ) brings the 1950s into focus with a fascinating reconstruction of Harry and Bess Truman's postpresidential 2,500-mile road trip. “I like to take trips—any kind of trip,” Truman...

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The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth

Matthew Algeo, Chicago Review, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-56976-350-6

Despite a reputation for honesty, says Algeo (Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure), "President Grover Cleveland, like FDR and JFK, went to great lengths to hide an illness from the public. In June 1893, having told the New York Times he was going...

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Abe & Fido: Lincoln’s Love of Animals and the Touching Story of His Favorite Canine Companion

Matthew Algeo. Chicago Review, $22.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-55652-222-2

Algeo (Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure) celebrates Abraham Lincoln’s compassion for animals, exemplified by his relationship with his household pets, particularly Fido, a “friendly yellow mutt.” The dog “amused Lincoln to no end,” serving as a...

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When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art

Matthew Algeo. Chicago Review, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-641-60787-2

Journalist Algeo (All This Marvelous Potential) relates in this affable account a meeting between America’s 33rd president and one of the 20th century’s best-known artists. In June 1958, Harry and Bess Truman were on a grand Mediterranean tour when...

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