01632nam a22001937a 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001700102041000900119050001400128100003000142245012500172260004400297300004500341520105200386BJBSDDR20260514101751.0ta260514s2011    nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781402767487  a140276748X  bspacBJBSDDR  aeng   bP626 20111 aPietrusza, David, d1949-10a1948 : bHarry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world / cDavid Pietrusza  aNew York : bUnion Square Press, c2011  axxiii, 520 pagesbillustrations ;c24 cm  aThe 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.