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I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952 (American Presidential Elections) by John Robert Greene is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his fellow partisans, "Mr. Republican." No one imagined the party standard bearers would be Illinois governor Adlai E. Stevenson II and Supreme Allied Commander in World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower.. I Like Ike tells the story of a critical election fought between two avowedly reluctant warriors, including Truman's efforts to recruit Eisenhower as the candidate of the Democrat Party—to a finish that, for all the partisan wrangling, had more to do with the extraordinary popularity of the former general, who, along with Stevenson, was seen to be somehow above politics.In the first book to analyze the 1952 election in its entirety, political historian John Robert Greene looks in detail at how Stevenson and Eisenhower faced demands that they run for an office neither...ISBN : 9780700624041
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- Author
- John Robert Greene
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780700624065
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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