David Wallace spent his childhood in the Truman/Wallace home in Independence, Missouri, living withhis family, his grandmother, and his Aunt Bess, Uncle Harry, and cousin Margaret, with more aunts anduncles just next door. Their shared living arrangement created a self-contained extended family whoseinterconnectedness continued even after Uncle Harry, then Senator Truman, became President Truman-the most powerful man in the world-and their shared home became the Summer White House.As the only remaining member of this self-contained household, Wallace looks back on those years torecount anecdotes and intimate details of a unique American heritage. From the scandal of his granddaddy'ssuicide that led to the unusual living arrangement to the family stories passed down on weekend drives, ICalled Him Uncle Harry shares Wallace's memories of his famous family and their lives together.

I Called Him Uncle Harry: Growing Up in the Truman-Wallace Household

Biographies & Memoirs

Wallace, David

Historical

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Screaming and Other Tales

Literature & Fiction

Neil, Harry

Short Stories & Anthologies

Book of the Year Award, 2009 ForeWord Magazine, True Crime category ; Jackson County Historical Society's 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award for the Historic Book of the Year The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of three Swope family members: the eccentric Colonel, millionaire donor of Kansas City, Missouri's Swope Park, his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. The mystery pits the Swope matriarch against her disfavored son-in-law, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde. Charged with poisoning the Colonel and suspected of multiple other attempted murders, Dr. Hyde endures national media attention for this crime of the century. The series of trials and appeals that followed explores the question: Was he a diabolical villain bent on inheriting Swope's millions or the unfortunate victim of a family grudge? This account of gothic-era America follows streetcar tracks from the courtrooms of Kansas City to the typhoid-plagued Swope mansion in nearby Independence. The author delivers an engaging and accurate retelling of these 100-year-old events in the literary journalism tradition by analyzing court transcripts, newspaper coverage, and personal memoirs. Readers also get a new scenario based on modern science for what may have happened in the dark hallways of the mansion on Pleasant Street.

Deaths on Pleasant Street: The Ghastly Enigma of Colonel Swope and Doctor Hyde

Fowler, Giles

True Crime

As a boy, Jim McKean understood little about the lives of the women in his family. Perhaps they preferred it that way. Later, marriage brought another group of women and then a daughter brought questions. The answers revealed stories of remarkable women who survived their time and place, creating a legacy of grit and independence, vulnerability and pain, as they struggled to create lives through the vagaries of war, broken homes, and discrimination. Revisiting these stories has drawn Jim McKean back into the family of women who raised him, stories that bind his and their worlds together.

Bound

McKean, James

Essays & Correspondence

When Colonel William Leonard died in 1901, among his effects was found a lovely jewelry box containing a simple ring carved of cow bone and engraved with his birthdate and the year of his imprisonment in Libby Prison. This humble memento, so carefully preserved, was made for him by his men to mark his 46th birthday when they were all prisoners of war in the notorious Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Also found was his journal, which begins when he was colonel in Purnell's Legion Infantry, which was charged with protecting telegraph and rail lines in Maryland and Virginia, and ends after he was paroled from Libby Prison and returned to Maryland. The bone ring and journal writings were passed down through his descendants, and his memory has been kept alive through family stories. Leonard's great-granddaughter Gari Carter, who previously published the Civil War journals of another ancestor, Franklin Dick, now presents Col. Leonard's journal, richly annotated and supplemented with family lore and local history.

The Bone Ring

Carter, Gari

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