A Good Read

I just finished “Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure,” about a road trip taken by Harry and Bess Truman in a new Chrysler New Yorker in 1953. It’s one of a handful of books I’ve read on my new Kindle. No, it’s not the Kindle Fire. This one has black and white e-ink — but I like reading books with e-ink lots better than reading them on the iPad. Other than for reading Barron’s and a few other publications, I don’t much like the iPad’s backlighting. (Memo to Apple: next iPad, figure out a way to turn backlighting off, okay?)

“Excellent Adventure,” written by Matthew Algeo, is — as Harry Truman might have said — one helluva read. Think about it — an ex-president with no pension and no Secret Service detail, on a road trip, trying to travel incognito. (Sometimes they were successful; sometimes not.) It’s a very enjoyable read, a return to what used to be called the National Road, or National Pike. Part of it, I used to walk to high school, some of the time.