Thomas E. Dewey

Dewey, Thomas Edmund - 1902–71, American political figure, governor (1943–55) of New York, b. Owosso, Mich. Admitted (1925) to the bar, Dewey practiced law and in 1931 became chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. After briefly serving (1933) as U.S. attorney, he was appointed (1935) special prosecutor to investigate organized crime and was elected Read More...

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Dewey: An American of This Century (1944)
by Stanley Walker. 354 pgs.

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I "He Fears the Face of No Man"

Ii Thirteen Years

Iii the Beginnings

Iv Young Man in New York

V Mr. Medalie Finds a Champion

Vi Special Prosecutor

Vii the Liberation of a City

Viii the Honest Blacksmith

Ix Mr. District Attorney

X: The Forlorn Hope

Xi Defeat in Philadelphia

Xii Interlude

Xiii Landslide

Xiv the New Broom

Xv Wards of the State

Xvi Workmen's Compensation

Xvii New York's Farmers

Viii the State Police

Xix the O'Connell Dynasty

Xx Life at Pawling

Xxi the Governor's Wife

Xxii the Case Against Mr. Dewey

Xxiii Mostly Personal

Enemies of Labor: At American Labor Party Notification Rally in Carnegie Hall, New York City, September 30, 1937

Crime and Politics: Fourth in a Series of Five Broadcasts on "The Inside Story of a Racket" by Mr. Dewey, October 24, 1937

Looking Forward: Delivered at the Closing Rally of His Campaign for Gover nor at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N. Y., November 6, 1938

America is Not Finished: Excerpt from an Address at Minneapolis, Minn., Decem Ber 6, 1939

A Calendar of Unpunished Crimes: Excerpt from an Address in Chicago, Ill., March 28, 1940

The Defense of America: An Address at Dallas, Texas, May 27, 1940

A Statement of Principles: Excerpt from a Radio Address, June 21, 1940

The World We Want to Live In

The Faith of Millions: A Radio Address, November 2, 1942

Inaugural Address of Governor Thomas E. Dewey: The Capitol, Albany, N. Y., January 1, 1943

Stop Hitler Now: For the "Stop Hitler Now Demonstration" Held at Madison Square Garden, New York City, March 1, 1943

Government Close to the People: At a Regional Meeting of the Council of State Govern Ments, New York City, on April 9, 1945

The Battle of Food: Speech at the Governors' Conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 21, 1943

Teamwork: At the New York State Federation of Labor Convention in Buffalo, N. Y., August 23, 1943

The Widening Social Horizon: At Carnegie Hall, New York City, October 3, 1943, Before the Combined New York and Brooklyn Jewish Federations

The Case Against Tammany Hall: Address Delivered in Favor of Joe R. Hanley, Candidate for Lieutenant Governor, at a Rally at the St. George Hotel, Brooklyn, N. Y., October 28, 1943

Utopia, Chaos, or Common Sense?: Address Delivered to the Herald Tribune Forum, Novem Ber 16, 1943

The Best Informed People in the World: Address Opening the Annual Exhibition of the Press Pho Tographers Association of New York, March 24, 1944

Report to the People: To the People of the State of New York on the Work of the 1944 Session of the Legislature and the Accomplishments of the State Administration, April 14, 1944

Our Foreign Policy: At the Annual Meeting of the American Newspaper Pub Lishers Association Held in New York City, April 27, 1944

Acceptance: To the Republican National Convention, June 28, 1944
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27 Masters of Politics: In a Personal Perspective (1949) ("Politics Self-Taught --Thomas E. Dewey" begins on p. 56)
by Raymond Moley. 279 pgs.

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The Purpose

Acknowledgments

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Reform Without Incompetence

Challenge to Orthodoxy Charles A. Beard

Sidewalk Statesmanship Alfred E. Smith

A Stone Rejected Herbert Hoover

History's Bone of Contention Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Immortal Amateur Wendell Willkie

Politics Self-Taught Thomas E. Dewey

He'D Rather Be Right John Nance Garner

Corn-Fed Proletarian

Knight of Non-Partisanship Earl Warren

Man from Main Street

Prometheus Unbound

The Autocracy of Good Judgment

What's in a Gnome? Louis Mchenry Howe

The Ghost That Haunted the White House Charles Michelson

Holmes and the Sorcerer's Apprentices Felix Frankfurter

Soft Heart in a Hard Shell Hugh Johnson

Uncle Mark's Daughter Ruth Hanna Mcc. Simms

Peter Pan in the Treasury Will Woodin

Durable Builder of Durable Works Robert Moses

Flower and Victim of an Age James J. Walker

There, Almost--With the Grace of God Samuel Seabury

Divide, Provide Et Impera Huey P. Long

Far from Europe Hiram Johnson

He'Ll Never Walk Alone

Despite These Honors

The Almighty's Proxy Hatton Sumners

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3.

Public Men in and out of Office (1946) (Chap. 23 "Thomas Edmund Dewey: 'Political Resiliency'")
by J. T. Salter. 518 pgs.

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Introduction

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I: In the Nation and In The Foreign Service

I: Harry S. Truman "I Don't Want to Be President,

2: George S. Messersmith "The Diplomacy of Intelligence"

3: Joseph Clark Grew "Decade of Infamy"

4: Wendell Willkie "The Party's Embarrassing Conscience"

5: John G. Winant "Interpreter of American Life"

6: Henry Agard Wallace "People Are More Important Than Pigs"

II: In Congress

7: Joseph C. O'Mahoney: "His Answer to the Enigma"

8: Gerald P. Nye "Essentially Negative"

9: Sam Rayburn "He First Tries Persuasion"

10: Robert Lee Doughton "Hard Work with No Vacations"

II: J. William Fulbright "Hell-Bent on His Objective"

12: Adolph J. Sabath "Dean of the House"

13: Hamilton Fish "Crusading Isolationist"

14: Sol Bloom "Supersalesman of Patriotism"

15: Alben W. Barkley "Reservoir of Energy"

16: Claude D. Pepper "Champion of the Belligerent Democracy"

17: Theodore G. Bilbo "Shibboleths for Statesmanship"

18: Joseph H. Ball "A Liberal Dose of Candor"

19: Tom Connally "One of the Senate Gallery's Favorites"

20: Jerry Voorhis "What is Right Rather Than What is Expedient"

21: Ellison Durant Smith "A Politician from the Old South"

III: In City and in State

22 Harold Edward Stassen: "Candidate in Absentia"

23: Thomas Edmund Dewey "Political Resiliency"

24: John W. Bricker "Personally Honest"

25: Robert S. Kerr "Realist in Politics"

26: Earl Warren "So-Called Nonpartisan"

27: Frank Hague "Belligerent Suspicion"

IV: Interpretation

28: The Voter's Politician "The Voter's Other Self"

The Contributors

Index
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Booknotes: Stories from American History ("Truman Defeats Dewey" begins on p. 305)
by Brian Lamb. 540 pgs.

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From C-SPAN comes a browsable gift book and bedside companion for history lovers. The third in the series of the bestselling "Booknotes" books, this one recounts great events in American history as told by the writers and historians who have appeared on the "Booknotes" program. of color photos.

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Introduction

Revolution and Founding 1776-1815

A Shoemaker and the Boston Tea Party

Declaring Independence

Creating the Constitution

The Federalist Papers

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

The American and French Revolutions

The Contested Election of 1800

The Hamiltonburr Duel

The Slave Ship Henrietta Marie

The Young Nation 1815-1850

The First Generation of Americans

Celebrating Fifty Years of Independence

Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Slavery and the Civil War 1850-1865

Buildup to the Civil War

Volunteer Soldiers

Women of the Slaveholding South

The Events of 1863

Civil War Correspondents

Ulysses S. Grant's Military Career

Differing Perspecives on Abraham Lincoln

The Leadership of Robert E. Lee

Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy

Rebuilding America and the Gilded Age 1865-1901

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Building of Central Park

The First Transcontinental Railroad

Grover Cleveland's Political Career

The Events of the 1890s

William Randolph Hearst and the Rise of Yellow Journalism

J. P. Morgan, National Banker

Progressive Era and Reaction 1901-1929

The Crusades of Ida B. Wells

The Celebrity of Helen Keller

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

The Scopes "Monkey" Trial

Al Smith and the 1928 Election

Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations

Charles Lindbergh's Reluctant Public Life

The Roosevelt Dynasty

Depression and War 1929-1945

The Great Depression and World War II

The Early Days of Soviet Espionage

The Nurses Captured on Bataan

The Creation of the Withholding Tax

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

The World War II Generation

The Great Black Migration

Early Network News

Early Cold War 1945-1957

Five: Men Who Shaped the Postworld War II World

The Unlikely Kennedy-Nixon Friendship

Lucius D. Clay and Postwar Berlin

Truman Defeats Dewey

The Rise and Fall of Joseph Mccarthy

The New York Intelligentsia

Social Transformation 1957-1975

Orval Faubus and the Desegregation of Central High School

Lyndon Johnson and the 1960 Election

Robert Frost and the Kennedy Inauguration

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing

The Kennedy Years

The Warren Commission

The Rfk-Lbj Feud

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

Stories from 1964

John Marshall Harlan and the Warren Court

Getting to Know Richard M. Nixon

The Life and Career of Adam Clayton Powell Jr

Richard J. Daley and Chicago's Political Machine

Reporting from Vietnam

American Pows in Vietnam

The Culture Wars 1975-2000

The Rise of the Neoconservatives

The Forgotten Radio Scripts of Ronald Reagan

The Political Lore of Tip O'Neill

A Symposium on Race

The Reagangorbachev Summits

Reagan, Bush, and the Press

Planning the Persian Gulf War

Last Days of the First Bush White House

Dan Rostenkowski's Fall from Power

A Half-Century of Meet the Press

Modern Presidents' Mothers

Appendix

Complete List of C-Span Booknotes (1989-2001)

Index
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Presidential Nominating Politics in 1952, Vol. Two: The Northeast (Discussion of Thomas E. Dewey begins on p. 155)
by Paul T. David. 372 pgs.

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The Northeast: Congressional Districts

Contributors to the Volume

Prefatory Note

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Northeast

Chapter 2: Maine

Chapter 3: New Hampshire

Chapter 4: Vermont

Chapter 5: Massachusetts

Chapter 6: Rhode Island

Chapter 7: Connecticut

Chapter 8: New York

Chapter 9: New Jersey

Chapter 10: Delaware

Chapter 11: Maryland

Chapter 12: Pennsylvania

Chapter 13: West Virginia

Chapter 14: District of Columbia

Chapter 15: Puerto Rico

Name Index

Subject Index
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Presidential Campaigns (Discussion of Thomas E. Dewey begins on p. 259)
by Paul F. Boller Jr. 458 pgs.

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Chapter One: 1789 Starting Off: George Washington

Chapter Two: 1792 Washington Again

Chapter Three: 1796 Federalist Succession: John Adams

Chapter Four: 1800 Republican Takeover: Jefferson's Revolution

Chapter Five: 1804 Jefferson's Landslide

Chapter Six: 1808 Madison and the Dambargo

Chapter Seven: 1812 Madison's Wartime Re-Election

Chapter Eight: 1816 Monroe: Another Virginia Victory

Chapter Nine: 1820 Monroe's Quiet Re-Election

Chapter Ten: 1824 John Quincy Adams and the "Corrupt Bargain"

Chapter Eleven: 1828 Jackson Vs. Adams

Chapter Twelve: 1832 Jackson, Clay, and the Bank War

Chapter Thirteen: 1836 Van Buren's Victory over Three Whigs

Chapter Fourteen: 1840 Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Chapter Fifteen: 1844 Polk and Manifest Destiny

Chapter Sixteen: 1848 Old Zach and the Michigander

Chapter Seventeen: 1852 Frank Pierce and Old Fuss and Feathers

Chapter Eighteen: 1856 Buchanan and Bleeding Kansas

Chapter Nineteen: 1860 Lincoln and the Sectional Crisis

Chapter Twenty: 1864 Lincoln and the War Crisis

Chapter Twenty-One: 1868 Grant and Reconstruction

Chapter Twenty-Two: 1872 Grant and the Liberal Republicans

Chapter Twenty-Three: 1876 the Hayes-Tilden Disputed Election

Chapter Twenty-Four: 1880 the Triumph of "Boatman Jim" Garfield

Chapter Twenty-Five: 1884 the Cleveland-Blaine Contest

Chapter Twenty-Six: 1888 Harrison, Cleveland, and the Tariff

Chapter Twenty-Seven: 1892 Cleveland's Return to Power

Chapter Twenty-Eight: 1896 Mckinley, Bryan, and Free Silver

Chapter Twenty-Nine: 1900 the Mckinley-Roosevelt Triumph

Chapter Thirty: 1904 T.R.'s Smashing Victory

Chapter Thirty-One: 1908 Taft's Big Victory over Bryan

Chapter Thirty-Two: 1912 the High Tide of Progressivism: Wilson, Roosevelt, and Taft

Chapter Thirty-Three: 1916 Wilson and the Great War

Chapter Thirty-Four: 1920 Harding, Nostrums, and Normalcy

Chapter Thirty-Five: 1924 Keeping Cool with Coolidge

Chapter Thirty-Six: 1928 Hoover, Smith, and the Catholic Issue

Chapter Thirty-Seven: 1932 Roosevelt, Hoover, and the Great Depression

Chapter Thirty-Eight: 1936 Roosevelt and the New Deal

Chapter Thirty-Nine: 1940 Roosevelt, Willkie, and the War in Europe

Chapter Forty: 1944 Roosevelt's Wartime Mandate

Chapter Forty-One: 1948 the Great Truman Surprise

Chapter Forty-Two: 1952 the Eisenhower Landslide

Chapter Forty-Three: 1956 Another Eisenhower Landslide

Chapter Forty-Four: 1960 Kennedy and the New Frontier

Chapter Forty-Five: 1964 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society

Chapter Forty-Six: 1968 Nixon, Humphrey, and the Vietnam War

Chapter Forty-Seven: 1972 Another Nixon Triumph

Chapter Forty-Eight: 1976 The Triumph of an Outsider: Jimmy Carter

Chapter Forty-Nine: 1980 The Reagan Victory

Chapter Fifty: 1984 Another Reagan Sweep

Chapter Fifty-One: 1988 Trivial Pursuit: Bush Vs. Dukakis

Chapter Fifty-Two: 1992 Clinton and the Call for Change

Notes

Index
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The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History (Discussion of Thomas E. Dewey begins on p. 127)
by G. Scott Thomas. 491 pgs.

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Thomas offers a complete statistical and descriptive guide to the 50 American presidential elections that were held between 1789 and 1984. The book is divided into two major sections, the first dealing with the elections as such and the second with the participation of the candidates, parties, and states. The Pursuit of the White House incorporates more than 450 charts as well as concise summaries supplying comprehensive data on all aspects of presidential elections.

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Preface

How to Use This Book

Section 1. the Elections

1. All Republicans, All Federalists: 1789-1816

2. the Coming of Democracy: 1820-1852

3. Waving the Bloody Shirt: 1856-1900

4. the Road to Normalcy: 1904-1928

5. Rendezvous with Destiny: 1932-1956

6. Beyond the New Frontier: 1960-1984

Section 2. the Participants

7. the Candidates

8. the Parties

9. the States

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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The Republican Dilemma: Conservatism or Progressivism (1963) ("Taft, Dewey, and Vandenberg" begins on p. 9)
by Conrad Joyner. 104 pgs.

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1940 · the Republican Travail

Taft, Dewey, and Vandenberg

The Immortal Amateur

We Want Willkie"

Why They Wanted Willkie

The Decades of Accommodation: 1940-60

The Republican Dilemma

I N D E X
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The Republican Right since 1945 (Discussion of Thomas E. Dewey begins on p. 42)
by David W. Reinhard. 294 pgs.

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1: If Roosevelt Lives Forever

2: A Titanic Ballot-Box Uprising

3: The Philadelphia Story

4: A New Set of Guts

5: If the Elephant Remembers

6: Mr. Republican

7: Stick with Ike

8: Go Down Grinning with Ike

9: A Choice Not an Echo

10: Extremism in the Pursuit of Liberty is No Vice

11: An Emerging Republican Majority

12: Our Time Has Come

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Harry S. Truman: Presidential Rhetoric ("Doing Unto Dewey" begins on p. 89 and Truman's Speech "Doctor Dewey and the Republican Record" begins on p. 147)
by Halford R. Ryan. 218 pgs.

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Harry Truman is famous for his plain speaking, and his presidential rhetoric is evaluated in terms of his most important speeches relating to the Cold War, Korean War, and whistle-stop campaigning to win a remarkable election victory, and his summation of his presidential role. This in-depth analysis of his major speeches as president, texts, chronology, and bibliography give insights into presidential rhetoric and communications research.

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Series Foreword

Foreword

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1: The Truman Doctrine

2: The Korean Quagmire

3: The President versus the General

4: Doing Unto Dewey

NOTES

5: Point Four

5 Point Four

Conclusion

Conclusion

II: Collected Speeches

The Truman Doctrine

Acceptance Speech

Doctor Dewey and the Republican Record

Inaugural Address

On Korea I

On Korea II

Far Eastern Policy

Chronology of Speeches

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Great American Orators

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