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The Wizard of Washington. Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling.
Melvin G. Holli
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Description for The Wizard of Washington. Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling.
Paperback. The first book-length study of Emil Hurja, who introduced the use of public opinion polls to drive presidential campaigning. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Series
The World of the Roosevelt's
Number of Pages
164
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349634491
SKU
V9781349634491
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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.
'...well-researched and well-written biography of a Finnish American hero.' - Giles C. Ekola, The Finnish American Reporter