The annual award takes its namesake from a the hard-charging Manhattan District Attorney who took on organized crime during ...

But “Dewey Defeats Truman,” from the Chicago Daily Tribune, is perhaps the most memorable headline in American political history, and it is the title of A.J. Baime’s well-paced book on the ...

Because the Deseret News was printed later than the newspapers that infamously ran with the headlines “Dewey defeats Truman,” ...

Cleveland College Dewey supporters shared in the general confidence that Republican Thomas E. Dewey would defeat Democrat Harry S Truman. As reported in the student yearbook, “Upon Truman’s nomination ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 2, 1948, in one of the most unexpected results in U.S. election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S.

Someone handed the President a copy of an early election-night edition of the Truman-hating Chicago Tribune with a banner line: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, and he held up the paper to the crowd ...

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victorious Harry Truman holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune headlined DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. The fire had been lighted by Pollsters George Gallup, Elmo Roper, et al., who had miscalled the ...

Thomas Mallon is the author of seven novels, including *Henry and Clara*, *Dewey Defeats Truman* and *Fellow Travelers*. He is a frequent contributor to *The New Yorker*, *The New York Times Book ...