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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Michael A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
Dewey, Thomas E. > (Thomas Edmund), > 1902-1971.
Presidents > Election.
Politics and government
Presidents > United States > Election > 1944.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1933-1945.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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