Harold Ivan Smith

Harold Ivan Smith has spent more than a decade doing research for Almost Everything You Need to Know About Harry S Truman, the thirty-third president of the United States, 1945-1953, who entered the Oval Office following the unexpected death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Smith has a doctorate in from Asbury Theological Seminary and an Ed.S. from George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. He is a member of the Wild About Harry Society of the Truman Library Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. He has lectured at the Roosevelt Reading Festival at the FDR Presidential Library and at the Harry Truman Presidential Library. His research has been conducted in ten presidential libraries focuses on the bereavements of US presidents and first ladies. Eleanor: A Spiritual Biography, his most recent book, examines how Eleanor Roosevelt's spirituality influenced her social and political activism. Smith, known as a storyteller, lives in Palm Springs, CA, and teaches Grief at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, at the Learning in Retirement program at the College of the Desert.