The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election - Brossura

Karabell, Zachary

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ISBN 10: 0375700773 ISBN 13: 9780375700774

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001

Riassunto

The author of The Third World and the Cold War focuses on the Truman-Dewey campaign, analyzing the use of mass media to win voters and the rise of fringe parties on both ends of the political spectrum. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Recensione:

“The greatest presidential contest in modern American history. . . . In this vivid, entertaining book, Karabell brings all four candidates to life, skillfully re-creating a tumultuous time.” —The New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

Zachary 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 What's College For? The Struggle to Define American Higher Education and Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962. He has taught at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Dartmouth. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon.com, Boston Globe, The Nation, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Christian Science Monitor.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375700773
• ISBN 13: 9780375700774
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336