01718nam a22002297a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260514101751.0 ta 260514s2011 nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781402767487 140276748X spa BJBSDDR eng P626 2011 Pietrusza, David, 1949- 11665 1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world / David Pietrusza New York : Union Square Press, 2011 xxiii, 520 pages illustrations ; 24 cm The 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. lcc 0 BK cmc 127087 127087 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2026-05-14 0 P626 2011 00000199795 2026-05-14 10:18:58 1 2026-05-14 BK