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In this persuasive reappraisal of Truman's 1948 victory, Harold Gullan argues that it was neither the “greatest upset in American political history” (as popular mythology would have it) nor merely a successful extension of the coalition built by Franklin Roosevelt (as many historians contend). Aided by so many fortuitous circumstances, Gullan declares, Truman should have won by an even larger margin. Despite the near unanimous opinion of polls, pundits,...
About the Author
Harold I. Gullan studied at Johns Hopkins, St. Joseph's, and Temple universities, and is now an independent scholar living in Philadelphia. His work on presidential politics has appeared in the Presidential Studies Quarterly.
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Fresh appraisal of an election that has long been considered the greatest political upset in American history. Gullan, an independent scholar whose work has appeared in the Presidential Studies Quarterly, argues that the election would have been an upset if Dewey had won. He finds the New Deal program had become so institutionalized that the old Rooseveltian coalition simply could not dissolve completely. The partially conservative Truman,...
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- PublisherIvan R. Dee
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1566632064
- ISBN 13 9781566632065
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages255
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