Truman's Triumphs: The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America - Hardcover
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Truman's Triumphs: The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America
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...
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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