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Politics as Usual : Thomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Wartime Presidential campaign of 1944 /

The presidential election of 1944, which unfolded against the backdrop of the World War II, was the first since 1864--and one of only a few in all of US history--to take place while the nation was at war. After a brief primary season, the Republican Party settled upon New York governor Thomas E. Dew...

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Autor principal: Davis, Michael A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The triumph of politics as usual, 1941-1945
  • Thomas Dewey and the dilemmas of Republican wartime opposition
  • Franklin Roosevelt and the challenges of the Democratic majority
  • Mackinac and the making of a Republican foreign policy
  • Democrats and the postwar world
  • John W. Bricker and the conservative Republicans
  • The fall of Wendell Willkie
  • Thomas Dewey and the struggle for Republican consensus
  • The Republican National Convention
  • Dewey, "an American of this century"
  • Franklin Roosevelt and the pursuit of Democratic party unity
  • The Democratic National Convention
  • Thomas Dewey and the making of a wartime campaign
  • FDR, commander-in-chief
  • "The listening campaign"
  • "Such a slimy campaign"
  • Roosevelt and victory.