1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
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xxiii, 520 pages, [16] pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Pietrusza, D. (2011). 1948: Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world . Union Square Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Pietrusza, David, 1949-. 2011. 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America's Role in the World. New York: Union Square Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Pietrusza, David, 1949-. 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America's Role in the World New York: Union Square Press, 2011.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Pietrusza, David. 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America's Role in the World Union Square Press, 2011.

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