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Truman's Triumphs: The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America (American Presidential Elections)
Andrew E. Busch
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Paperback. Offers a fresh and revealing account of the dramatic 1948 presidential election between President Harry Truman and challenger Thomas Dewey. Recounts a contest with more twists and turns and a different outcome than most contemporaries anticipated, and makes engaging reading for scholar and history buff alike." Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
The Chicago Tribune headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN” remains infamously wrong about the outcome of the 1948 presidential election. But, as Andrew Busch reveals, there is much more to this story than the well-worn image of a victorious and beaming President Harry Truman parading the newspaper’s erroneously headlined front page for all to see.
Primarily a contest between Truman and challenger Thomas Dewey, the 1948 presidential race offered something for everyone, including two third-party candidates (Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace), triumphant grit, tragic hubris, dangerous naiveté, accidents of fate, accusations of betrayal, foreign crises, the birth of Israel in ... Read more
The Chicago Tribune headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN” remains infamously wrong about the outcome of the 1948 presidential election. But, as Andrew Busch reveals, there is much more to this story than the well-worn image of a victorious and beaming President Harry Truman parading the newspaper’s erroneously headlined front page for all to see.
Primarily a contest between Truman and challenger Thomas Dewey, the 1948 presidential race offered something for everyone, including two third-party candidates (Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace), triumphant grit, tragic hubris, dangerous naiveté, accidents of fate, accusations of betrayal, foreign crises, the birth of Israel in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700618675
SKU
V9780700618675
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About Andrew E. Busch
Andrew E. Busch is Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. His dozen books include Reagan’s Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right (also from Kansas), and most recently Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics.
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