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FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944
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FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944
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"A lucid, highly engrossing account of a fateful but little chronicled episode in American presidential politics . . . featuring a large cast of personalities." --Richard Kluger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Simple JusticeAlthough the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt's health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision…
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- Autorius: David M. Jordan
- Leidėjas: Indiana University Press
- Metai: 2011
- Puslapiai: 408
- ISBN: 9780253005625
- ISBN-10: 0253005620
- ISBN-13: 9780253005625
- Formatas: ePub
- Kalba: Anglų
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"A lucid, highly engrossing account of a fateful but little chronicled episode in American presidential politics . . . featuring a large cast of personalities." --Richard Kluger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Simple JusticeAlthough the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt's health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today most people assume that FDR's reelection was assured. Yet, as David M. Jordan's engrossing account reveals, neither the outcome of the campaign nor even the choice of candidates was assured.
Just a week before Election Day, pollster George Gallup thought a small shift in votes in a few key states would award the election to Thomas E. Dewey. Though the Democrats urged voters not to "change horses in midstream," the Republicans countered that the war would be won "quicker with Dewey and Bricker." With its insider tales and accounts of party politics and campaigning for votes in the shadow of war and an uncertain future, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 "deserves a place alongside Theodore White's histories of how high and low character, fierce ambition, and dumb luck play their part in the nation's choice of its chief executive" (Richard Kluger).
"Jordan tells the story of the 1944 presidential election, and he tells it very well . . . a clearly written, well-researched narrative." --Journal of American History
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- Autorius: David M. Jordan
- Leidėjas: Indiana University Press
- Metai: 2011
- Puslapiai: 408
- ISBN: 9780253005625
- ISBN-10: 0253005620
- ISBN-13: 9780253005625
- Formatas: ePub
- Kalba: Anglų
"A lucid, highly engrossing account of a fateful but little chronicled episode in American presidential politics . . . featuring a large cast of personalities." --Richard Kluger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Simple Justice
Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt's health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today most people assume that FDR's reelection was assured. Yet, as David M. Jordan's engrossing account reveals, neither the outcome of the campaign nor even the choice of candidates was assured.
Just a week before Election Day, pollster George Gallup thought a small shift in votes in a few key states would award the election to Thomas E. Dewey. Though the Democrats urged voters not to "change horses in midstream," the Republicans countered that the war would be won "quicker with Dewey and Bricker." With its insider tales and accounts of party politics and campaigning for votes in the shadow of war and an uncertain future, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 "deserves a place alongside Theodore White's histories of how high and low character, fierce ambition, and dumb luck play their part in the nation's choice of its chief executive" (Richard Kluger).
"Jordan tells the story of the 1944 presidential election, and he tells it very well . . . a clearly written, well-researched narrative." --Journal of American History
Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt's health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today most people assume that FDR's reelection was assured. Yet, as David M. Jordan's engrossing account reveals, neither the outcome of the campaign nor even the choice of candidates was assured.
Just a week before Election Day, pollster George Gallup thought a small shift in votes in a few key states would award the election to Thomas E. Dewey. Though the Democrats urged voters not to "change horses in midstream," the Republicans countered that the war would be won "quicker with Dewey and Bricker." With its insider tales and accounts of party politics and campaigning for votes in the shadow of war and an uncertain future, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 "deserves a place alongside Theodore White's histories of how high and low character, fierce ambition, and dumb luck play their part in the nation's choice of its chief executive" (Richard Kluger).
"Jordan tells the story of the 1944 presidential election, and he tells it very well . . . a clearly written, well-researched narrative." --Journal of American History
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