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Pages: 262
Pages: 262
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-14 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
What best defines a Democrat in the American political arena—idealistic reformer or pragmatic politician? Harry Truman adopted both roles and in so doing defi
Language: en
Pages: 156
Pages: 156
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-31 - Publisher: University of Missouri Press
As Franklin D. Roosevelt's health deteriorated in the months leading up to the Democratic National Convention of 1944, Democratic leaders confronted a dire situ
Language: en
Pages: 400
Pages: 400
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-14 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Fifty years ago Harry S. Truman pulled off the greatest upset in U.S. political history. With his party split on both the left and the right, and facing a formi
Language: en
Pages: 326
Pages: 326
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: SIU Press
Given his background, President Truman was an unlikely champion of civil rights. Where he grew up--the border state of Missouri--segregation was accepted and la
Language: en
Pages: 325
Pages: 325
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-14 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as thei
