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Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul
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Author:
A.J. Baime
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date:
July 7, 2020
From the "New York Times" best-selling author of "The Accidental President" comes the story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America.
What The Reviewers Say
In this presidential election year, historian and journalist A.J. Baime has given America a winner.
... Baime's lively and insightful account of the second-most shocking presidential upset in modern history, delivers the best-reasoned and most revealing examination to date of that memorable mid-century election.
... well-paced.
Well written and supremely researched, Dewey Defeats Truman identifies the key issues, the major personalities involved, and how they played out in the lead-up to the 1948 presidential election. While A. J. Baime starts off with a comparison to today’s issues, the book is strictly historical and laser-focused on the march to November 1948.
