Final victory [electronic resource] : FDR's extraordinary World War II presidential campaign / Stanley Weintraub.

Final victory [electronic resource] : FDR's extraordinary World War II presidential campaign / Stanley Weintraub.

9780306821127 electronic book
9780306821134

Boston : Da Capo Press, [2012]

©2012

English

1 online resource (xii, 318 pages)

E812 .W38 2012eb

973.917092

The year is 1944, a president is under siege, there is a war-wrecked economy, an influx of returning war veterans, and a challenge to Social Security. When the wartime 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already occupied the White House years longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive campaign, hitting hard at FDR's liberal domestic policies and the war's ongoing cost. Despite gravely deteriorating health, FDR and his feisty running mate, the unexpected Harry Truman, campaigned vigorously against young governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and old-line Ohio governor John Bricker. Roosevelt's charm and wit, as well as the military successes in Europe and the Pacific, contributed to his sweeping electoral victory. But the hard-fought campaign would soon take its toll on America's only four-term president. The author, a biographer and a historian here recaptures FDR's final campaign and the year 1944's momentous events, from the rainy city streets where Roosevelt, his legs paralyzed by polio since 1922, rode in an open car, to the battlefronts where the commander-in-chief's forces were closing in on Hitler and Hirohito.

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