The next video will be a History in General™ episode about the 1948 election. This is a crazy election! Truman, the quintessential accidental president, fighting against all odds to maintain his presidency. Dewey, the beloved gangbuster with a legendary moustache trying to unseat a president for the second time. And the unlikely dyad of Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace, running as third and fourth party candidates respectively, both campaigning for president as an attempted act of revenge against the system they felt wronged them.
This episode should be completed sometime within the next few weeks. If you'd like to do some reading about this election ahead of time, here are some books we've read on the subject which we found really fascinating:
1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America by David Pietrusza The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century by Benn Steil Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul by AJ Baime The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by AJ Baime
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The next video will be a History in General™ episode about the 1948 election. This is a crazy election! Truman, the quintessential accidental president, fighting against all odds to maintain his presidency. Dewey, the beloved gangbuster with a legendary moustache trying to unseat a president for the second time. And the unlikely dyad of Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace, running as third and fourth party candidates respectively, both campaigning for president as an attempted act of revenge against the system they felt wronged them.
This episode should be completed sometime within the next few weeks. If you'd like to do some reading about this election ahead of time, here are some books we've read on the subject which we found really fascinating:
1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America by David Pietrusza
The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century by Benn Steil
Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul by AJ Baime
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by AJ Baime
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