Politics as Usual: Thomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Wartime Presidential Campaign of 1944

by Michael A. Davis

The 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875807119
• ISBN13: 9780875807119
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher