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| Persona incaricata: | Franklin D Roosevelt; Thomas E Dewey; Thomas E Dewey; Franklin D Roosevelt |
|---|---|
| Tipo documento: | Book |
| Tutti gli autori / Collaboratori: |
David M Jordan |
| ISBN: | 9780253356833 0253356830 9780253005625 0253005620 |
| Numero OCLC: | 696100051 |
| Descrizione: | xii, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contenuti: | Prologue: an evening at the Statler -- A nation at war -- Politics in midwar -- The Republicans -- The Democrats -- Willkie pushes hard -- President and Congress -- Wendell in wonderland -- The bandwagon rolling -- It looks like Dewey -- The Republican Convention -- Meanwhile, the Democrats -- The ailing president -- Will Roosevelt run? -- Who runs with Roosevelt? -- The Democrats arrive in Chicago -- Democrats in convention -- Campaign on the high seas -- The Republicans go to work -- Dewey heads west -- The battle is on -- The October campaign kicks in -- Death in October -- Dewey on the offensive -- FDR strikes back -- Down to the wire -- Bricker's campaign -- The man from Missouri -- The last days -- Election day -- Summing up -- Epilogue: the fourth term. |
| Responsabilità: | David M. Jordan. |
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"All presidential elections are important - and interesting. The 1944 election is no exception. It's a good story and Jordan tells it well." - Gary Donaldson, author of Truman Defeats Dewey "A fast-moving, blow-by-blow account of the often neglected wartime campaign that pitted Franklin Delano Roosevelt against Republican Thomas E. Dewey, with pollsters divided to the very end. For political junkies there is suspense, backroom dealing, and surprises about both presidential and vice-presidential nominations, as well as where the parties would stand on the future both at home and abroad. And while today we worry about partisan extremism, in 1944 a sitting commander-in-chief and his administration were accused not only of domestic corruption but of military blunders that cost American lives, all while leading the country toward communism or monarchy." - Roger Lane, author of Murder in America: A History "David Jordan has produced a lucid, highly engrossing account of a fateful but little chronicled episode in American presidential politics. His narrative of the 1944 election campaign - written with savvy and encyclopedic range and featuring a large cast of personalities rendered in deft cameos - deserves a place alongside Theodore White's histories of how high and low character, fierce ambition, and dumb luck play their part in the nation's choice of its chief executive." - Richard Kluger, Pulitzer Prize-winning social historian "This book is informative, interesting (especially for the political history geek) and suspenseful in spite of the fact that we all know how the story is going to end." - bookish.livejournal.com "The US presidential election of 1944 sent FDR to the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, yet despite popular perceptions to the contrary, this outcome was not assured. Jordan provides a detailed account of the 'infighting and horse-trading' of this hard-fought, wartime campaign." - Survival, April-May 2013 Per saperne di più…
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- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1944.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- (Franklin Delano), -- 1882-1945.
- Dewey, Thomas E. -- (Thomas Edmund), -- 1902-1971.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
- Political science.
- Presidents -- Election.
- United States.
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