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Dewey Defeats Truman

โœ Scribed by Mallon, Thomas

Book ID
108188799
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2013
Tongue
en-US
Weight
307 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780345805577

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โœฆ Synopsis

From a writer whose last book, Henry and Clara , prompted John Updike to declare Thomas Mallon one of the most interesting American novelists at work, comes a story that perfectly captures the delightful romance and wistful magic of our recent, and more innocent, past.

Thomas Mallon has masterfully appropriated a jubilant legend (and famous headline) of modern American history -- Harry Truman's upset victory over Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election -- and built around it a midwestern Midsummer Night's Dream.

Set in Dewey's hometown of Owosso, Michigan, this is the captivating story of a local love triangle that mirrors the national election contest. As the voters must decide between candidates, so must Anne Macmurray choose between two suitors: an ardent UAW organizer and his polar opposite, a wealthy lawyer who's certain he will ride to state Senate victory on Republican coattails.

As they weave a small-town...

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