Mr Truman Goes to Washington

E. Canterbery ()

Chapter 4 in Harry S Truman:The Economics of a Populist President, 2014, pp 47-65 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Mr Truman went to Washington in the midst of the Great Depression. In May 1934 he filed as a Democratic candidate for the Senate. On August 7 he defeated incumbent Republican Roscoe C. Patterson. On January 3, 1935 Truman was sworn in as a US Senator along with 12 other Democrats. By the mid-1930s Washington DC was being transformed from a sleepy small southern city into a large metropolitan area of great diversity. It was being transformed by the activist Roosevelt administration…

Keywords: Harry S Truman; Bessie Wallace (Mrs Truman); the Whistle-Stop Campaign; President's Council of Econmics Advisers (CEA); Employment Act of 1946; Progressive populist; Progressivism; McCarthyism; War and peace; Democrats; Republicans; Keynesian economics; Communism; Iron Curtain; Stalin; New Deal; Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Korean Warl Cold War; George C Marshall; Dwight D Eisenhower; Gerhard Colm; World War One; World War Two; Great Depression; Roaring Twenties (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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