Truman's Triumphs
The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America
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December 1, 2012
Busch (government, Claremont McKenna Coll.; Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right), who has written about several more recent presidential elections, turns here to Harry S. Truman's 1948 victory over Thomas E. Dewey--a well-chronicled event. Busch differentiates his book by placing more focus than past authors on certain components of the election such as the concurrent congressional contests; by thoroughly analyzing and synthesizing the work of many prior scholars; by including appendixes such as state-by-state primary and general election results, in addition to a strong bibliographical essay; and by offering his own interpretation of Truman's victory, which he considers less of an upset than the popular view would have it, and as much the "last gasp of an era" as it was an affirmation of the New Deal. VERDICT The results are something of a handbook on this important election, and scholars will value it for that. General readers looking for a David McCullough-esque narrative will not find it here, however, and may want to turn to David Pietrusza's 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America.--Robert Nardini, Niagara Falls, NY
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