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Dewey Defeats Truman
A masterful retelling of a legend and famous headline of modern American history--Harry Truman's upset victory over Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.
Set in Dewey's hometown of Owosso, Michigan, this is the captivating story of a local love triangle that mirrors the national election contest. As the voters must decide between the candidates, so must Anne Macmurray choose between two suitors: an ardent United Auto Workers organizer and his polar opposite, a wealthy young Republican lawyer who's running for the state senate. Weaving a tapestry of small-town secrets, the people of Owosso ready themselves for the fame that is bound to shower down upon them after Dewey's "sure thing" victory. But as the novel--and history--move toward election night, we watch the townspeople, along with Anne and her suitors, have their fates rearranged in a climax filled with suspense, chagrin and unexpected joy.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Apr 23rd, 2013
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.90in - 0.61lb
- EAN: 9780345805560
- Categories: • Historical - General• Political• Romance - Historical - General
About the Author
Thomas Mallon is the author of eight novels, including Henry and Clara, Fellow Travelers, and Watergate. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and other publications.
Praise for this book
"A warm, touching, and richly textured novel; a classic American movie filmed in glorious prose deluxe."
--Entertainment Weekly
"A finely textured web. . . . Like Shakespeare's summery comedies, the novel is about love's madness. . . . Effortlessly summons the feel of a bygone era. . . . A lovely meditation on the interplay between past and present."
--Jay Parini, The New York Times Book Review
"Charming . . . Mallon is a master of detail about a place and a time."
--Chicago Tribune
"A beautifully written and absorbing novel, with richly drawn characters and a wealth of bubbling plots."
--Detroit Free Press
"It's fueled by a sense of period detail so strong that reading it seems at times like paging through an old high school yearbook . . . I enjoyed the wit and precision with which Mallon presents this world."
--Boston Sunday Globe
"Thomas Mallon is a smart, inventive, prolific writer . . . What interests him is not history per se but the way in which large events touch and alter the lives of ordinary, unknown people."
--The Washington Post
"Mallon's prose is always rich and economical. . . . Dewey Defeats Truman is the kind of novel that restores meaning to the present by recovering the past."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"[A] beautifully controlled novel. . . . Mallon has so meticulously re-created a time and place that even trivial data has the force of nothing less than truth. . . . Mallon's complicated meditation on the trials of private and public identity is beautifully fashioned. Its tale of yesteryear tells America a little bit about what it is today."
--Publishers Weekly