1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America

The wild, combative inside story of the most stunning upset in the history of presidential elections: Harry Truman's 1948 victory over Tom Dewey.

Award-winning historian David Pietrusza unpacks the most ingloriously iconic headline in the history of presidential elections amp;mdash; DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN amp;mdash; to reveal the 1948 campaign's backstage events and recount the down-to-the-wire brawl fought against the background of an erupting Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, the birth of Israel, and a post-war America facing exploding storms over civil rights and domestic communism.