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1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory And The Year That Transformed America (2011)

by David Pietrusza(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

140276748X (ISBN13: 9781402767487)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Union Square Press

review 1: I'm really enjoying this type of book (e.g., 1857, 1858) that goes into a lot of specific detail about what was really going on behind the scenes of what we only glimpse in "regular" history books. Truman is typically ranked about 7th-best President, but after reading this I would put him lower than that. The man was a hack ("The Senator from Pendergast") and a poor public speaker. He was a bigot, had a bad temper, and had almost no understanding of the issues he had to make crucial decision about. He would be much less well known today if it hadn't been for the famous newspaper photo showing the headline "Dewey Beats Truman" in the 1948 election.
review 2: I just now finished it. Any reader will be surprised in the similarities between 1948 and 2012; a defia... morent Republican Congress, a President under attack and the startling dull personality similarity between Thomas E. Dewey (Our future lies in front of us?) and Mitt Romney. Henry Wallace - please younger generations, NOT to be confused with the right wing segregationist George Wallace of the 1960s - predicting a vote of 10 million..remember Ross Perot in 1992- but Wallace earned less than 1 million votes and no electoral votes. HENRY WALLACE was a visionary progressive thinker ahead of his time unfortunately tainted by the communist influence and activism in his Progressive Party...Strom Thurmond the Dixiecrat actually took some Southern States in his plan to force the election into the House of Representatives. You all know how it ended. The Chicago Tribune headline, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN! "Mr. President," read a sign from one newspaper, "We are ready to eat crow whenever you are ready to serve it." An amazing upset, a presidential archivist once told me, "There was no way that Truman should have won this election." Read how he did it. less

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