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1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world / David Pietrusza.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pietrusza, David, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
- Democratic Party (U.S.).
- Presidents--United States--Election--1948.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
- Truman, Harry S.
- Presidential candidates--United States--Biography.
- Presidential candidates.
- Politicians--United States--Biography.
- Politicians.
- Democratic Party (U.S.)--Biography.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--Biography.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.
- International relations.
- Social change--United States--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- History.
- Political culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Nineteen forty-eight
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Union Square Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- 1 "Three sizes too large" 1
- 2 "You Judge. I can't" 3
- 3 "I hopt It's the same team again, Henry" 15
- 4 "You men who have nigger children" 28
- 5 "I'll be different, not like I used to be" 38
- 6 "To err is Truman" 51
- 7 "My very stomach tunred" 65
- 8 "The South can be considered safely Democratic" 75
- 9 "No one laughs at Harold Stassen" 83
- 10 "Maybe Masaryk Had cancer" 92
- 11 "The Bronx is not cheering" 105
- 12 "A lost ball in high grass" 119
- 13 "We have a lot of Communists in New York" 133
- 14 "Professors who scratch their waffles" 148
- 15 "Why can't simple soldier be left alone ?" 158
- 16 "It's such outrageous sport, really" 171
- 17 "It might have been worse" 181
- 18 "Shifty and somewhat slimy" 194
- 19 "What do these people want?" 201
- 20 "The bright sunshine of human rights" 206
- 21 "Behold, the validity of Christian principles" 219
- 22 "An interesting and instructive evening" 226
- 23 "The wool hat woman of Byron, Georgia" 237
- 24 "I have been thinking of you holding the casket" 249
- 25 "Half of the gallery are FBI agents" 258
- 26 "Bases, bombs, Moscow, Leningrand, etc." 272
- 27 "A last hysterical gasp of an expiring administration" 279
- 28 "I have never laid eyes on him" 291
- 29 "The unseemly spectacle we are now witnessing" 302
- 30 "You simply can't make a potilician out of him" 312
- 31 "Fifty million pounds of lard" 330
- 32 "Daddy, you shouldn't say 'hell'" 343
- 33 "Ain't he coming?" 362
- 34 "The campaign is ending and you still don't know" 376
- 35 "Don't bother me anymore; I'm going to bed" 385
- 36 "One for the books" 405.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 140276748X
- 9781402767487
- OCLC:
- 707260582
- Publisher Number:
- 99946307041
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