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Link: American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Dewey Defeats Truman exhibit

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Fiction

• Dewey Defeats Truman : A Novel
  Mallon, Thomas
  Pantheon Books List Price: 24.00 ISBN: 0679444254 Date: 1997
  Publishers Weekly
  PW Best Books of '97
  NYTBR Notable
  Thomas Mallon has masterfully appropriated a jubilant legend (and famous headline) of modern American history and built it around a midwestern Midsummer Night's Dream. Set in Dewey's Michigan hometown of Owosso, Dewey Defeats Truman is the captivating story of a local love triangle that manages to mirror the national contest.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction | Dewey Defeats Truman

Nonfiction

• The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
  Author: Karabell, Zachary
  Publisher: Knopf $ 27.50 ISBN: 0375400869 Date: 2000
  Political history at its most absorbing, this book tells the fascinating story of the last presidential campaign in which Americans truly had an ideological choice--an election that was supposed to see the Republican standard-bearer, Thomas E. Dewey, as the sure-fire winner.
  Updated 10.24.05
• Truman
  Author: McCullough, David
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 40 ISBN: 0671456547 Date: 1992
  Booklist Kirkus PW
  Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and the world by achieving a greatness all his own after coming to the presidency in FDR's giant shadow. An extraordinary and deeply moving biography, at once spare in its style yet rich in emotion and in detail.
  Updated 10.25.05
• Thomas E. Dewey and His Times
  Author: Smith, Richard Norton
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 22.50 ISBN: 067141741x Date: 1982
  Updated 10.24.05
• The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman
  Author: Truman, Harry S.
  Date: 2002
  The Autobiography of Harry S. Truman is a compilation of autobiographical writings composed by Truman between 1934 and 1972. Taken directly from his own manuscript material, the volume presents the thoughts and feelings of the man himself. The book touches on details in Truman's life from his days as a boy until graduation from Independence High School in 1901 to the vice presidency of the United States and beyond. There is also a memorandum written by Truman about the Pendergast machine in Kansas City telling how it was possible to work with the machine and not be soiled by it. The Autobiography concludes with some of the retired president's thoughts about politics and the purposes of public life.
  Updated 10.24.05

For Youth

• The Election of 1948 and the Administration of Harry S. Truman
  Author: Schlesinger, Arthur (edt)
  Publisher: Mason Crest $ 24.95 ISBN: 1590843606 Date:
  The 15 volumes in the series Major Presidential Elections, and the administrations that followed, take an in-depth look at the most important, influential, and interesting presidential campaigns in American history. The books, compiled under the editorial leadership of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr., feature a long essay on the election as well as an annotated selection of important letters, speeches, policy statements, and other documents related to the presidential administration. The books are lavishly illustrated with color photographs of campaign-related paraphernalia, showing how the presidential candidates delivered their messages to the voters.
  Grades: 8+ Category: Nonfiction