1948 - Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America

Award-winning historian David Pietrusza unpacks the most ingloriously iconic headline in the history of presidential elections-DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN-to reveal the 1948 campaign's backstage events and recount the down-to-the-wire brawl fought against the background of an erupting Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, the birth of Israel, and a post-war America facing exploding storms over civil rights and domestic communism.

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David Pietrusza

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• Authors: David Pietrusza, Pietrusza David
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Distribution Clients
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2018
• EAN: 9781635764482
• ISBN: 978-1-63576-448-2
• No. of pages: 559
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 901 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Central / national / federal government, Central government