The Populist Campaign of 1948

E. Canterbery ()

Chapter 8 in Harry S Truman:The Economics of a Populist President, 2014, pp 127-149 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: 1948. World War II was not far from memory but in its wake, another war was about to begin. While Truman was planning his Presidential Campaign, Stalin was to make a new play in Berlin which would require immediate, decisive action by the President…

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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