{"product_id":"the-last-campaign-how-harry-truman-won-the-1948-election-paperback","title":"The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eZachary Karabell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eThe Last Campaign\u003c\/b\u003e, Zachary Karabell rescues the 1948 presidential campaign from the annals of political folklore (\"Dewey Defeats Truman,\" the Chicago Tribune memorably and erroneously heralded), to give us a fresh look at perhaps the last time the American people could truly distinguish what the candidates stood for. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1948, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHarry Truman, the feisty working-class Democratic incumbent was one of the most unpopular presidents the country had ever known. His Republican rival, the aloof Thomas Dewey, was widely thought to be a shoe-in. These two major party candidates were flanked on the far left by the Progressive Henry Wallace, and on the far right by white supremacist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. \u003cb\u003eThe Last Campaign\u003c\/b\u003e exposes the fascinating story behind Truman's legendary victory and turns a probing eye toward a by-gone era of political earnestness, when, for \"the last time in this century, an entire spectrum of ideologies was represented,\" a time before television fundamentally altered the political landscape.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Last Campaign, Zachary Karabell rescues the 1948 presidential campaign from the annals of political folklore (\"Dewey Defeats Truman,\" the Chicago Tribune memorably and erroneously heralded), to give us a fresh look at perhaps the last time the American people could truly distinguish what the candidates stood for. \u003cbr\u003eIn 1948,\" Harry Truman, the feisty working-class Democratic incumbent was one of the most unpopular presidents the country had ever known. His Republican rival, the aloof Thomas Dewey, was widely thought to be a shoe-in. These two major party candidates were flanked on the far left by the Progressive Henry Wallace, and on the far right by white supremacist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. The Last Campaign exposes the fascinating story behind Truman's legendary victory and turns a probing eye toward a by-gone era of political earnestness, when, for \"the last time in this century, an entire spectrum of ideologies was represented,\" a time before television fundamentally altered the political landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eZachary Karabell was educated at Columbia and Oxford, and at Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in American history in 1996. He is the author of \u003cb\u003eWhat's College For? The Struggle to Define American Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eArchitects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962.\u003c\/b\u003e He has taught at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Dartmouth. His essays and reviews have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Salon.com, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe, The Nation, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Smithsonian Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 7.96 x 5.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 10, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53853297377613,"sku":"9780375700774","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/RtTaIIBk8D9780375700774.webp?v=1778068228","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-last-campaign-how-harry-truman-won-the-1948-election-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}