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

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

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. Dewey...

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Davis, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Triumph of Politics as Usual, 1941-1945
  • 2 Thomas Dewey and the Dilemmas of Republican Wartime Opposition
  • 3 Franklin Roosevelt and the Challenges of the Democratic Majority
  • 4 Mackinac and the Making of a Republican Foreign Policy
  • 5 Democrats and the Postwar World
  • 6 John W. Bricker and the Conservative Republicans
  • 7 The Fall of Wendell Willkie
  • 8 Thomas Dewey and the Struggle for Republican Consensus
  • 9 The Republican National Convention
  • 10 Dewey-"An American of This Century"
  • 11 Franklin Roosevelt and the Pursuit of Democratic Party Unity
  • 12 The Democratic National Convention
  • 13 Thomas Dewey and the Making of a Wartime Campaign
  • 14 FDR-Commander-in-Chief
  • 15 "The Listening Campaign"
  • 16 "Such a Slimy Campaign"
  • 17 Roosevelt and Victory
  • Conclusion: "Not a Word, Not a Comma"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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