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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467159103321

Autore

Davis Michael A.

Titolo

Politics as usual : Thomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and the wartime presidential campaign of 1944 / / Michael A. Davis ; design by Yuni Dorr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Kalb, Illinois : , : NIU Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-5017-5741-5

1-60909-169-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

324.973/0917

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 1944

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The triumph of politics as usual, 1941-1945 -- Thomas Dewey and the dilemmas of Republican wartime opposition -- Franklin Roosevelt and the challenges of the Democratic majority -- Mackinac and the making of a Republican foreign policy -- Democrats and the postwar world -- John W. Bricker and the conservative Republicans -- The fall of Wendell Willkie -- Thomas Dewey and the struggle for Republican consensus -- The Republican National Convention -- Dewey, "an American of this century" -- Franklin Roosevelt and the pursuit of Democratic party unity -- The Democratic National Convention -- Thomas Dewey and the making of a wartime campaign -- FDR, commander-in-chief -- "The listening campaign" -- "Such a slimy campaign" -- Roosevelt and victory.