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This book will be the definitive account of Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential campaign.--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society The research is excellent, and Devine tells the history in a straightforward way. A must read for all students of the period. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.--Choice This is not a Wallace biography; it's a penetrating and persuasive account of the first postwar U.S. presidential contest and one of the most contentious in our history. Highly recommended, especially for serious students of American politics and presidential elections.--Library Journal A revision of the revisionists.--The New Yorker Exhaustively researched and elegantly argued, the book places the Wallace campaign into a larger context of late 1940s post-Popular Front politics that sheds new light on the road of American leftist political activism in these years.--American Historical Review Will likely become the definitive volume on the Progressive Party and the 1948 election.--Journal of Southern History A marvelous example of scholarship on the failure of Wallace and the Progressives in 1948.--Middle West Review Very engrossing.--Ballot Access News With careful scrutiny of Wallace's language, assumptions, and arguments, Devine offers a fairly devastating portrait of a flawed man and an even more flawed crusade.--Dissent Thomas W. Devine's new study of Wallace is a serious work of history. The book seems likely to stand as the definitive account of Wallace's ill-fated presidential campaign and the ideological and political developments it represented.--Journal of Cold War Studies In some respects, Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism is a critique of historians who have seen postwar Popular Front liberalism as a positive force in American politics.--Annals of Iowa [An] excellent book. . . . This will surely remain the definitive work on the Wallace movement for many years to come.--Journal of American Studies A valuable addition to the scholarship on postwar liberalism and American politics in general.--H-USA

This is not a Wallace biography; it's a penetrating and persuasive account of the first postwar U.S. presidential contest and one of the most contentious in our history. Highly recommended, especially for serious students of American politics and presidential elections. -- Library Journal

[An] excellent book. . . . This will surely remain the definitive work on the Wallace movement for many years to come. -- Journal of American Studies A valuable addition to the scholarship on postwar liberalism and American politics in general. -- H-USA Will likely become the definitive volume on the Progressive Party and the 1948 election. -- Journal of Southern History Thomas W. Devine's new study of Wallace is a serious work of history. The book seems likely to stand as the definitive account of Wallace's ill-fated presidential campaign and the ideological and political developments it represented. -- Journal of Cold War Studies Exhaustively researched and elegantly argued, the book places the Wallace campaign into a larger context of late 1940s post-Popular Front politics that sheds new light on the road of American leftist political activism in these years. -- American Histo In some respects, Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism is a critique of historians who have seen postwar Popular Front liberalism as a positive force in American politics. -- Annals of Iowa This is not a Wallace biography; it's a penetrating and persuasive account of the first postwar U.S. presidential contest and one of the most contentious in our history. Highly recommended, especially for serious students of American politics and preside A revision of the revisionists.-- The New Yorker Very engrossing.-- Ballot Access News This book will be the definitive account of Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential campaign.--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society The research is excellent, and Devine tells the history in a straightforward way. A must read for all students of the period. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.--Choice This is not a Wallace biography; it's a penetrating and persuasive account of the first postwar U.S. presidential contest and one of the most contentious in our history. Highly recommended, especially for serious students of American politics and presidential elections.--Library Journal A revision of the revisionists.--The New Yorker Exhaustively researched and elegantly argued, the book places the Wallace campaign into a larger context of late 1940s post-Popular Front politics that sheds new light on the road of American leftist political activism in these years.--American Historical Review Will likely become the definitive volume on the Progressive Party and the 1948 election.--Journal of Southern History A marvelous example of scholarship on the failure of Wallace and the Progressives in 1948.--Middle West Review Very engrossing.--Ballot Access News With careful scrutiny of Wallace's language, assumptions, and arguments, Devine offers a fairly devastating portrait of a flawed man and an even more flawed crusade.--Dissent Thomas W. Devine's new study of Wallace is a serious work of history. The book seems likely to stand as the definitive account of Wallace's ill-fated presidential campaign and the ideological and political developments it represented.--Journal of Cold War Studies In some respects, Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism is a critique of historians who have seen postwar Popular Front liberalism as a positive force in American politics.--Annals of Iowa [An] excellent book. . . . This will surely remain the definitive work on the Wallace movement for many years to come.--Journal of American Studies A valuable addition to the scholarship on postwar liberalism and American politics in general.--H-USA -In some respects, Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism is a critique of historians who have seen postwar Popular Front liberalism as a positive force in American politics.--Annals of Iowa Very engrossing.--Ballot Access News Very engrossing.-- Ballot Access News A revision of the revisionists.-- The New Yorker In some respects, Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism is a critique of historians who have seen postwar Popular Front liberalism as a positive force in American politics.-- Annals of Iowa With careful scrutiny of Wallace's language, assumptions, and arguments, Devine offers a fairly devastating portrait of a flawed man and an even more flawed crusade. -- Dissent Very engrossing. -- Ballot Access News A revision of the revisionists. -- The New Yorker The research is excellent, and Devine tells the history in a straightforward way. A must read for all students of the period. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- Choice This book will be the definitive account of Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential campaign. -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

Exhaustively researched and elegantly argued, the book places the Wallace campaign into a larger context of late 1940s post-Popular Front politics that sheds new light on the road of American leftist political activism in these years. -- American Historical Review

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Thomas W. Devine is professor of history at California State University, Northridge.

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