Bibliograph

1948, Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world, David Pietrusza

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1948, Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world, David Pietrusza

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-508) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

1948

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

707260582

Responsibility statement

David Pietrusza

Sub title

Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world

Summary

"Everyone knows the iconic newsphoto: A jubilant underdog Harry Truman brandishes a copy of the Chicago Tribune proclaiming 'DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.' But far more exists to 1948's election that a single inglorious headline. In this ... book, ... David Pietrusza goes beyond the headlines to reveal the backstage events behind Truman's stunning upset victory, placing in context a down-to-the-wire fight against the background of an erupting Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, and the birth of Israel, and a post-war America facing exploding storms over civil rights and domestic communism."--Front flap of jacket

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1948, Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed AmericaNineteen forty-eight

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