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Truman's Triumphs

Author : Andrew E. Busch
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700618678
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Truman's Triumphs written by Andrew E. Busch and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 naivet, accidents of fate, accusations of betrayal, foreign crises, the birth of Israel in the Middle East, a dramatic special session of Congress, internecine battles among unions and liberals, spies, extremists galore (including Ku Klux Klansmen and Communists), the first televised convention, wayward polls, and, of course, a final result that surprised many. Amid a small library of books on the topic, Busch's stands out by offering the best scholarly study available--and the most readable. His fresh account goes beyond previous work by examining more closely the nomination season, key congressional elections, and the state of public opinion. He also digs into splits in both parties-the Democrats seeing Southern segregationists and the far left run their own candidates and the Republicans facing a division between philosophical wings representing the 80th Congress and the presidential ticket--and tells why the Republican schism proved more damaging. He concludes that the election was especially significant as an affirmation of the New Deal, of anti-Communist containment, and of gradual progress in civil rights--all of which established the political baseline for postwar America. Even readers knowledgeable about Truman's 1948 victory will discover new findings in this fresh and revealing account of that dramatic race. Truman's Triumphs recalls 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.

The Last Campaign

Author : Zachary Karabell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307428869
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Last Campaign written by Zachary Karabell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Last Campaign, Zachary Karabell rescues the 1948 presidential campaign from the annals of political folklore ("Dewey Defeats Truman," the Chicago Tribune memorably and erroneously heralded), to give us a fresh look at perhaps the last time the American people could truly distinguish what the candidates stood for. In 1948, Harry Truman, the feisty working-class Democratic incumbent was one of the most unpopular presidents the country had ever known. His Republican rival, the aloof Thomas Dewey, was widely thought to be a shoe-in. These two major party candidates were flanked on the far left by the Progressive Henry Wallace, and on the far right by white supremacist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. The Last Campaign exposes the fascinating story behind Truman’s legendary victory and turns a probing eye toward a by-gone era of political earnestness, when, for “the last time in this century, an entire spectrum of ideologies was represented,” a time before television fundamentally altered the political landscape.

The Liberal State on Trial

Author : Jonathan Bell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231133561
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Liberal State on Trial written by Jonathan Bell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was left, in both senses of the word, of liberalism after the death of Franklin Roosevelt? Using case studies from Senate and House races from 1946 to 1952, this book explores the role of the Cold War in shifting the center of gravity in American politics sharply to the right in the years immediately following World War II. Bell demonstrates that there was far more active and vibrant debate about the potential for liberal ideas before they become submerged in Cold War anti-state rhetoric than has generally been recognized.

Memoirs

Author : Harry S. Truman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs written by Harry S. Truman and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Truman and the 80th Congress

Author : Susan M. Hartmann
Publisher : Columbia : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Truman and the 80th Congress written by Susan M. Hartmann and published by Columbia : University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In domestic policy, the Eightieth Congress is best known for its attack on the New Deal programs and its refusal to expand the welfare state. A close examination, however, reveals the limited nature of the attack as well as the considerable lack of agreement among Republicans - and Democrats - about desirable legislative goals. This study seeks to assess the external and personal obstacles to Truman's success as a legislative leader.

80th Congress and the United Nations

Author : Sheldon Zachary Kaplan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book 80th Congress and the United Nations written by Sheldon Zachary Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

1948

Author : David Pietrusza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781402767487
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book 1948 written by David Pietrusza and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1948 election was a war for the soul of the Democratic Party, with accidental president Harry Truman pitted against Henry Wallace, his embittered left-wing predecessor as vice president, and young South Carolina segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. On the GOP side, it's a four-way battle between cold-as-ice New Yorker Tom Dewey, Minnesota upstart Harold Stassen, stodgy but brilliant Ohio conservative Robert Taft, and imperious but aged Douglas MacArthur. Author David Pietrusza goes beyond the headlines to place in context a down-to-the-wire fight against the background of an erupting Cold War, the birth of Israel, storms over civil rights, and domestic communism. Featuring a stellar supporting cast: Alger Hiss, Whitaker Chambers, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Earl Warren, Paul Robeson, Lillian Hellman, Pete Seeger, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joe McCarthy, Clark Clifford, William O. Douglas, George C. Marshall, John Foster Dulles, Adlai Stevenson, Lyndon Johnson, H. L. Mencken, Harold Ickes, Clare and Henry Luce, and Ronald Reagan.--From publisher description.

The Marshall Plan

Author : Benn Steil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198757913
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Marshall Plan written by Benn Steil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.

The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism

Author : Richard M. Freeland
Publisher : New York : Knopf, 1972 [c1971]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism written by Richard M. Freeland and published by New York : Knopf, 1972 [c1971]. This book was released on 1972 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dear Bess

Author : Harry S. Truman
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826212030
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Dear Bess written by Harry S. Truman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This correspondence, which encompasses Truman's courtship of his wife, his service in the senate, his presidency, and after, reveals not only the character of Truman's mind but also a shrewd observer's view of American politics.

Veto Bargaining

Author : Charles M. Cameron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521625500
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Veto Bargaining written by Charles M. Cameron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining game theory with unprecedented data, this book analyzes how divided party Presidents use threats and vetoes to wrest policy concessions from a hostile congress.

Truman Defeats Dewey

Author : Gary A. Donaldson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813188709
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Truman Defeats Dewey written by Gary A. Donaldson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago Harry S. Truman pulled off the greatest upset in U.S. political history. With his party split on both the left and the right, and facing a formidable Republican opponent in New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Missourian was thought to have little chance of remaining in the White House. But politics in the postwar years were changing dramatically. Truman and his advisers successfully read those changes: their strategy focused on building a coalition of organized labor, African Americans in large northern cities, and traditional liberals—and ignoring protests from the conservative South. Donaldson argues that Dewey did nearly as much to lose the election as Truman did to win it. Dewey entered the campaign so overconfident that he refused to confront Truman on the issues. The Republicans, certain of a mandate from the public after the midterm elections of 1946, prepared to disassemble the New Deal. Yet they suffered from even more severe internal division than the Democrats. The 1948 presidential campaign was a watershed event in the history of American politics. It encompassed Truman's rousing "Give 'em Hell Harry" speeches and intriguing behind-the-scenes political maneuvering. It was the first election after Roosevelt's death and the last before the advent of television. It marked the new political prominence of African American voters and organized labor, as well as the South's declining influence over the Democratic Party.

Presidential Term Limits in American History

Author : Michael J. Korzi
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603449914
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Presidential Term Limits in American History written by Michael J. Korzi and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative historical study of the longstanding debate over executive term limits in American politics . . . By successfully seeking a third term in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt shattered a tradition that was as old as the American republic. The longstanding yet controversial two-term tradition reflected serious tensions in American political values. In Presidential Term Limits in American History, Michael J. Korzi recounts the history of the two-term tradition as well as the “perfect storm” that enabled Roosevelt to break with that tradition. He also shows that Roosevelt and his close supporters made critical errors of judgment in 1943-44, particularly in seeking a fourth term against long odds that the ill president would survive it. Korzi’s analysis offers a strong challenge to Roosevelt biographers who have generally whitewashed this aspect of his presidency and decision making. The case of Roosevelt points to both the drawbacks and the benefits of presidential term limits. Furthermore, Korzi’s extended consideration of the seldom-studied Twenty-second Amendment and its passage reveals not only vindictive and political motivations (it was unanimously supported by Republicans), but also a sincere distrust of executive power that dates back to America’s colonial and constitutional periods.

Watchdogs on the Hill

Author : Linda L. Fowler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400866464
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Watchdogs on the Hill written by Linda L. Fowler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential responsibility of the U.S. Congress is holding the president accountable for the conduct of foreign policy. In this in-depth look at formal oversight hearings by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, Linda Fowler evaluates how the legislature's most visible and important watchdogs performed from the mid-twentieth century to the present. She finds a noticeable reduction in public and secret hearings since the mid-1990s and establishes that American foreign policy frequently violated basic conditions for democratic accountability. Committee scrutiny of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she notes, fell below levels of oversight in prior major conflicts. Fowler attributes the drop in watchdog activity to growing disinterest among senators in committee work, biases among members who join the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, and motives that shield presidents, particularly Republicans, from public inquiry. Her detailed case studies of the Truman Doctrine, Vietnam War, Panama Canal Treaty, humanitarian mission in Somalia, and Iraq War illustrate the importance of oversight in generating the information citizens need to judge the president’s national security policies. She argues for a reassessment of congressional war powers and proposes reforms to encourage Senate watchdogs to improve public deliberation about decisions of war and peace. Watchdogs on the Hill investigates America’s national security oversight and its critical place in the review of congressional and presidential powers in foreign policy.

Dewey Defeats Truman

Author : Albert J. Baime
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 1328585069
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Dewey Defeats Truman written by Albert J. Baime and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the 1948 election, America was a fractured country. Racism was rampant, foreign relations were fraught, and political parties were more divided than ever. Americans were certain that President Harry S. Truman's political career was over. The only man in the world confident that Truman would win was Mr. Truman himself. And win he did. Baime sheds light on one of the most action-packed six months in American history, as Truman not only triumphs, but oversees watershed events: the passing of the Marshall plan, the acknowledgment of Israel as a new state, the careful attention to the origins of the Cold War, and the first desegregation of the military. -- adapted from jacket

The Republican Takeover of Congress

Author : Dean McSweeney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349265705
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Republican Takeover of Congress written by Dean McSweeney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electoral earthquake hit the American political landscape in 1994. As the Republican Party won control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1954 and control of the Senate for the first time since 1986, the longest uninterrupted period of single party rule in the entire history of the United States Congress came to an end. The new congressional majorities were the most conservative in 50 years and immediately proceeded to dominate the political agenda in Washington. Scholars from Britain and the United States document these momentous developments, evaluating their impact on America's political institutions and political culture and their significance for the future development of American politics and government.

Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

Author : Ira Katznelson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404508
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time written by Ira Katznelson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the New Deal era highlights the politicians and pundits of the time, many of whom advocated for questionable positions, including separation of the races and an American dictatorship.