num_pages: 544
description:  The behind-the-headline true story of Harry Truman's stunning upset! Everyone knows the iconic news photo of jubilant underdog Harry Truman brandishing a copy of the Chicago Tribune proclaiming DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. David Pietrusza goes backstage to explain how it happened placing the brutal political battle in the context of an erupting Cold War and America's exploding storms over civil rights and domestic communism.Pietrusza achieves for 1948's presidential race what he previously did in his acclaimed 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: bringing history to life and intrigue readers with tales of high drama while simultaneously presenting the issues personalities and controversies of this pivotal era with laser-like clarity. 
language: English
title: 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America
publisher: Union Square Press