Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum

Blackstone's Commentaries.

Although Harry would not go on to college after graduation because of family financial problems, he was very well read. "From the time I was 10 years old," he wrote, "I had spent all my idle hours reading, particularly biography and history." One of his favorite books was Blackstone's Commentaries.

Photo is of the book's author,
Sir William Blackstone, 1723-1780

Sir William Blackstone

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