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The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History)
Melvin G. Holli
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Description for The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History)
Hardcover. Melvin G. Holli shows how presidential reliance on public opinion polls dates back to the New Deal era, when Franklin Roosevelt employed a first-generation Finnish American named Emil Hurja to conduct polls for his 1932 and 1936 presidential campaigns. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JPHF; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
Historians have tended to point to John F. Kennedy's 1960 bid for the presidency as the first time a candidate relied extensively on public opinion polls to drive a campaign. Polling has come to define American politics, and is perhaps most clearly embodied in Bill Clinton, the post poll-driven president in history. Melvin G. Holli dismisses this notion, however, and reveals that presidential reliance on public opinion polls dates back to the New Deal Era, when Franklin Roosevelt employed a first-generation Finnish-American named Emil Hurja to conduct polls for this 1932 and 1936 presidential campaigns. Holli shows us how Hurja ... Read more
Historians have tended to point to John F. Kennedy's 1960 bid for the presidency as the first time a candidate relied extensively on public opinion polls to drive a campaign. Polling has come to define American politics, and is perhaps most clearly embodied in Bill Clinton, the post poll-driven president in history. Melvin G. Holli dismisses this notion, however, and reveals that presidential reliance on public opinion polls dates back to the New Deal Era, when Franklin Roosevelt employed a first-generation Finnish-American named Emil Hurja to conduct polls for this 1932 and 1936 presidential campaigns. Holli shows us how Hurja ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
The World of the Roosevelt's
Number of Pages
164
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312293956
SKU
V9780312293956
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About Melvin G. Holli
MELVIN G. HOLLI is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author and co-editor of fifteen books on urban, ethnic, and political history. His publication The American Mayor: The Best and Worst Big-City Leaders received extensive review attention and was the subject of a fifty-minute lecture on CSPAN-TV's Book Week.
Reviews for The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History)
'...well-researched and well-written biography of a Finnish American hero.' - Giles C. Ekola, The Finnish American Reporter