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I have omitted certain material." Another important but not scholarly work done about Harry Truman the man was the biography of Truman done by his only child, Margaret Truman Daniels.
The major work that examined Harry Truman and his personality is Merle Miller's Plain Speaking.Published in 1972, Plain Speaking is an oral biography of Harry S. Truman. Miller interviewed Truman in the early sixties in preparation for a planned documentary series about the former president. The documentary series never developed but in the early seventies Miller decided to use his numerous interviews to produce a book about Harry Truman. In response to the Watergate Scandal of 1972, Miller examined Truman's attitude and background using Truman as the major source to contradict the lies and corruption that Miller felt existed in Nixon's White House. Miller stated, "And as I say, during the summer of Watergate, there is a special kind of purity in what he has to say. Mary McGrory wrote some years back: 'Since Harry Truman left town almost nobody has spoken his mind. Mr. Truman took the tradition of plain speaking back to Missouri with him'". Miller showed Truman to be a honest self made man. More importantly, Miller sought to show how different Truman was from the politicians that came after him and how Truman's honesty and "plain speaking" was something sorely missed. Miller also interviewed Truman's family, friends, and those who worked around him, not to get a glimpse of the scene at the White House, but to discover who Harry Truman was.

Two other important biographies of Harry Truman are Jonathan Daniel's The Man of Independence and Alfred Steinberg's work The Man From Missouri: The Life and Times of Harry S. Truman. Jonathan Daniels served as Franklin Roosevelt's press secretary and became Truman's first press secretary upon Roosevelt's death. Published in 1950, Daniels' work focuses on Truman's childhood up until the election of 1948. Alfred Steinberg's work on Harry Truman focuses on the background of the life of Harry Truman. Published in 1962, Steinberg describes Truman's upbringing and teenage years, as well as his army life and early political career. Steinberg then delves into Truman's presidency. Steinberg's work was to be the first comprehensive look at Harry S. Truman, however shortly after Steinberg published his book, Truman's Presidential papers were released and those documents showed that many of Steinberg's conclusions were wither wrong or incomplete. Steinberg's

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