LEADER 04415nam 2200613 450 001 9910796480703321 005 20230803215045.0 010 $a1-5017-5741-5 010 $a1-60909-169-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501757419 035 $a(CKB)3800000000006905 035 $a(EBL)3382608 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001370810 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11771029 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001370810 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11297579 035 $a(PQKB)11261023 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3382608 035 $a(OCoLC)896213445 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37701 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3382608 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10981159 035 $a(DE-B1597)572380 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501757419 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000006905 100 $a20141119h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPolitics as usual $eThomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and the wartime presidential campaign of 1944 /$fMichael A. Davis ; design by Yuni Dorr 210 1$aDe Kalb, Illinois :$cNIU Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87580-711-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThe presidential election of 1944, which unfolded against the backdrop of the World War II, was the first since 1864?and one of only a few in all of US history?to take place while the nation was at war. After a brief primary season, the Republican Party settled upon New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, the former district attorney and popular special prosecutor of Legs Diamond and Lucky Luciano, as its nominee for president of the United States. The Democratic nominee for president, meanwhile, was the three-term incumbent, sixty-two year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sensitive to the wartime setting of the election, both Roosevelt and Dewey briefly adopted dignified and low-key electoral strategies early in their campaigns.  Within a few months however, "politics as usual" returned as the campaign degenerated into a vigorously fought, chaotic, unpredictable, and highly competitive contest. While Politics as Usual is a comprehensive study of the campaign, Davis focuses attention on the loser, Dewey, and shows how he emerged as a central figure for the Republican Party. Davis examines the political landscape in the United States in the early 1940s, including the state of the two parties, and the rhetoric and strategies employed by both the Dewey and Roosevelt campaigns. He details the survival of partisanship in World War II America and the often overlooked role of Dewey?who sought to rebuild the Republican Party "to be worthy of national trust"?as party leader at such a critical time. Although Dewey fell short of victory, Dewey kept his party unified, helped steer it away from isolationist influences, and rebuilt it to fit into (and to be a relevant alternative within) the post-World War II, New Deal order. 606 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xElection$y1944 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945 610 $apresidential election, WWII, World War II, Thomas E. Dewey, Legs Diamond, Lucky Luciano. 615 0$aPresidents$xElection 676 $a324.973/0917 700 $aDavis$b Michael A.$01565312 702 $aDorr$b Yuni 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796480703321 996 $aPolitics as usual$93834862 997 $aUNINA