Whistle Stop: How 31,000 Miles of Train Travel, 352 Speeches, and a Little Midwest Gumption Saved the Presidency of Harry Truman

By Philip White

Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences

Whistle Stop: How 31,000 Miles of Train Travel, 352 Speeches, and a Little Midwest Gumption Saved the Presidency of Harry Truman (2014) is a history by Philip White of Truman's 1948 campaign. Written off by pundits and trailing Thomas Dewey in the polls, Truman took his case directly to voters on a cross-country train tour. White details the grassroots strategy and the work of the Democratic National Committee's Research Division behind one of the great upsets in American political history.

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