Presidents

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

David Pietrusza

About the Program

David Pietrusza recounts the presidential campaign and election of 1948 that pitted Democratic candidate Harry Truman against Republican, Thomas Dewey. The author examines the path that both nominees took to the election and the surprising upset, personified by the iconic photograph of Truman holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune that headlined "Dewey Defeats Truman." David Pietrusza speaks at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library in Clifton Park, New York.

About the Authors

David Pietrusza

Mr. Pietrusza is former editor-in-chief of Total Sports Publishing and a past National President of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). He has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation and been chosen to serve on the Siena College Research Institute (SRI) Survey of United States Presidents, with fellow historians David McCullough and Douglas Brinkley, among others. Mr. Pietrusza earned both his bachelors and Master's degrees from the University of Albany.

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

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Monday, February 20th at 1:30pm (ET)
Monday, February 20th at 2am (ET)
Sunday, February 5th at 4pm (ET)
Sunday, February 5th at 12am (ET)
Saturday, February 4th at 7pm (ET)