1948 (eBook)

Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America

David Pietrusza (Autor)

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2018
562 Seiten
Diversion Books (Verlag)
978-1-63576-447-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The wild, combative inside story of the most stunning upset in the history of presidential elections—Harry Truman's victory over Tom Dewey: “Outstanding.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune In this lively account, award-winning historian David Pietrusza unpacks the most ingloriously iconic headline in the history of presidential elections—DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN—to reveal the 1948 campaign's backstage events and recount the down-to-the-wire brawl fought against the background of an erupting Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, the birth of Israel, and a post-war America facing exploding storms over civil rights and domestic communism. “Coherent, compelling…A skillful, authoritative investigation.”—Kirkus Reviews “A terrific book…a must-read.”—Ron Faucheux, former editor-in-chief, Campaigns & Elections magazine “Brilliantly portrays President Harry Truman's successful efforts to stave off the challenge of New York Gov. Tom Dewey, who was making a repeat bid as the Republican nominee.”—David Mark, author of Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning “Sweeping…compelling.”—Library Journal    “Gripping detail.”—The New York Journal of Books

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Adlai Stevenson • Alger Hiss • berlin airlift • Clare Luce • Clark Clifford • Cold War • communism • Conservative • Curtis LeMay • DEMOCRAT • Dixiecrat • Do-Nothing Congress • drew pearson • Earl Warren • Eisenhower • Eleanor Roosevelt • Electoral College • FDR • George C. Marshall • GOP • Harold Ickes • Harry Truman • Henry Luce • H. L. Mencken • hubert humphrey • H. V. Kaltenborn • joe mccarthy • John Foster Dulles • Liberal • Lillian Hellman • Lyndon Johnson • Nuclear • Paul Robeson • Pete Seeger • Politics • Presidential Election • Republican • Richard Nixon • Ronald Reagan • Roosevelt • Strom Thurmond • Thomas Dewey • Voting • Whitaker Chambers • William O. Douglas
• ISBN-10: 1-63576-447-5 / 1635764475
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63576-447-5 / 9781635764475