num_pages: 432
description:  From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election one of the greatest election stories of all time as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America.On the eve of the 1948 election America was a fractured country. Racism was rampant foreign relations were fraught and political parties were more divided than ever. Americans were certain that President Harry S. Trumans political career was over. The ballots havent been counted noted political columnist Fred Othman but there seems to be no further need for holding up an affectional farewell to Harry Truman. Trumans own staff did not believe he could win. Nor did his wife Bess. The only man in the world confident that Truman would win was Mr. Truman himself. And win he did. 1948 was a fight for the soul of a nation. In Dewey Defeats Truman A. J. Baime sheds light on one of the most action-packed six months in American history as Truman not only triumphs but oversees watershed eventsthe passing of the Marshall plan the acknowledgement of Israel as a new state the careful attention to the origins of the Cold War and the first desegregation of the military. Not only did Truman win the election he succeeded in guiding his country forward at a critical time with high stakes and haunting parallels to the modern day. 
language: English
title: Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt