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Margaret Truman (1924–2008)

Autor(a) de Harry S. Truman

44+ Works 11,531 Membros 150 Críticas 8 Favorited

About the Author

Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry S. Truman, was born on February 17, 1924 in Independence, Missouri. She graduated from George Washington University in 1946. She was also known as Margaret Truman or Margaret Daniel. She was an American singer who later became the successful author mostrar mais of a series of murder mysteries and a number of works on U.S. First Ladies and First Families, including a biography of her father, President Harry S. Truman. The only child of Harry Truman and First Lady Bess Truman; she was called "Margaret" for most of her life. Truman made her concert debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1947 and her first television appearance on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town. She substituted for Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person, and later had her own radio shows (Weekday in the 1950s and Authors in the News in the 1960s). She was active with organizations such as the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation and the Truman Centennial Committee. She published her first book, Souvenir: Margaret Truman's Own Story in 1956. She also wrote a series of mysteries set at historic locations in Washington, D. C. She died on January 29, 2008 following a brief illness. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por Margaret Truman

Harry S. Truman (1973) 685 exemplares
Murder at the National Cathedral (1990) 532 exemplares
Murder at the Library of Congress (1999) 520 exemplares
Murder in the White House (1980) 504 exemplares
Murder at the Kennedy Center (1989) 483 exemplares
Murder in the Smithsonian (1983) 461 exemplares
Murder at the Pentagon (1992) 437 exemplares
Murder in the CIA (1987) 436 exemplares
Murder at the National Gallery (1996) 436 exemplares
Murder in Georgetown (1986) 417 exemplares
Murder on Capitol Hill (1981) 403 exemplares
Murder on the Potomac (1994) 398 exemplares
Murder at the Watergate (1998) 388 exemplares
Murder on Embassy Row (1984) 372 exemplares
Murder in Foggy Bottom (2000) 368 exemplares
Murder at the Opera (2006) 362 exemplares
Murder at Ford's Theatre (2002) 357 exemplares
Murder at the FBI (1985) 356 exemplares
Murder at the Washington Tribune (2005) 348 exemplares
Murder in the Supreme Court (1981) 345 exemplares
Murder in the House (1997) 332 exemplares
Murder at Union Station (2004) 317 exemplares
Murder on K Street (2007) 304 exemplares
Murder in Havana (2001) 273 exemplares
Murder inside the Beltway (2008) 263 exemplares
Bess W. Truman (1986) 254 exemplares
Monument to Murder (2011) 150 exemplares
Women of Courage (1976) 69 exemplares
White House Pets (1969) 13 exemplares
Heart of War 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Margaret Truman's Experiment in Murder (2012) — Series Creator — 68 exemplares
Margaret Truman's Undiplomatic Murder (2014) — Series Creator — 63 exemplares
The Fifties Chronicle (2006) — Prefácio — 55 exemplares
Margaret Truman's Internship in Murder (2015) — Series Creator — 44 exemplares
Margaret Truman's Deadly Medicine (2016) — Series Creator — 34 exemplares
Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction 07 1990 (1990) — Editor — 19 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Truman Daniel, Mary Margaret
Outros nomes
Truman, Margaret
Daniel, Margaret
Data de nascimento
1924-02-17
Data de falecimento
2008-01-29
Localização do túmulo
Truman Library and Museum, Independence, MO, USA
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Independence, Missouri, USA
Local de falecimento
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Educação
George Washington University
Ocupações
singer
actor
radio host
pianist
mystery writer
Relações
Daniel, Clifton (husband)
Daniel, Clifton Truman (son)
Truman, Harry S. (father)
Organizações
Pi Beta Phi

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Margaret Truman was the daughter of President Harry S Truman and his wife Bess Truman. She graduated from George Washington University with a B.A. in history. She took vocal lessons and performed as a singer on stage, radio, and television until the mid-1950s. In 1956, she married Clifton Daniel, a reporter and then editor of The New York Times, with whom she had four sons. She wrote a number of works on U.S. First Ladies and First Families, including a biography of her father (1973). Later she was the author of a successful series of murder mysteries published from 1980 to 2011.

Membros

Críticas

I have read a few other of Margaret Truman's mysteries but this second entry in the series had somehow escaped me until now. Well done and now I can cross Washington D.C. off my Read-the-USA mystery challenge :)
 
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leslie.98 | 8 outras críticas | Jun 27, 2023 |
When the Secretary of State is murdered in the West Wing of the White House, the President appoints Ron Fairbanks, special counsel to the president, to investigate. This was an interesting mystery, full of the political intrigue of Washington, DC. The book was published in 1980, and there were times that something did strike me as a bit dated, but the story itself holds up. Ron is an interesting main protagonist and Truman has real experience with the ins and outs of the Washington political scene (at least during the time when she wrote the book). It looks like the next book in the series has a different main investigator so I am interested to see if there is any link in the series beyond Washington politics.… (mais)
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Cora-R | 18 outras críticas | May 22, 2023 |
Paul Singletary, brillante clérigo de la Catedral Nacional de Washington, aparece asesinado en una capilla de ésta.
A pesar de sus reticencias, Mack Smith se ve obligado a intervenir en el caso por amistad: Singletary había oficiado, poco antes de su muerte, el matrimonio de Smith.
En su investigación, éste logra descubrir dos importantes derivaciones: la primera, que Singletary era un verdadero Don Juan; la segunda, que la organización pacifista de la que era activo miembro presentaba muchos puntis oscuros.
¿Amor o política?
… (mais)
 
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Natt90 | 6 outras críticas | Mar 26, 2023 |
I'm not a mystery fan,and this book didn't change that. My bookclub recently read about the author's father, so I thought I would try one of this series.I'm familiar with DC, so the setting worked for me.
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ReluctantTechie | 2 outras críticas | Dec 4, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
44
Also by
10
Membros
11,531
Popularidade
#2,041
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
150
ISBN
438
Línguas
10
Marcado como favorito
8

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