Gary A Donaldson

Broschiertes Buch

Truman Defeats Dewey

Beschreibung

" 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, Africa

Autor

Gary A. Donaldson, associate professor of history at Xavier University, is the author of Abundance and Anxiety: America 1945 to 1960 and America at War Since 1945: Foreign Policy and Politics in Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780813190020
• ISBN-10: 0813190029
• Artikelnr.: 21138675