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Book

FDR, Dewey, and the election of 1944

Call Number

  • H 973.917 J822 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Physical Description

xii, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Prologue: an evening at the Statler
  • A nation at war
  • Politics in midwar
  • The Republicans
  • The Democrats
  • Willkie pushes hard
  • President and Congress
  • Wendell in wonderland
  • The bandwagon rolling
  • It looks like Dewey
  • The Republican Convention
  • Meanwhile, the Democrats
  • The ailing president
  • Will Roosevelt run?
  • Who runs with Roosevelt?
  • The Democrats arrive in Chicago
  • Democrats in convention
  • Campaign on the high seas
  • The Republicans go to work
  • Dewey heads west
  • The battle is on
  • The October campaign kicks in
  • Death in October
  • Dewey on the offensive
  • FDR strikes back
  • Down to the wire
  • Bricker's campaign
  • The man from Missouri
  • The last days
  • Election day
  • Summing up
  • Epilogue: the fourth term.

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