“Truman is not FDR,” explains ... So notorious was Dewey for his empty words and hollow platitudes that after his defeat, the Louisville Courier-Journal wrote, “No presidential candidate ...
In an outcome that rivaled 1948 for shock value, Trump defeated Hillary ... who won not a single state. Truman led the mainstream Democrats and carried 28 states. (Dewey won 16 states.) ...
To be fair, it was no doubt an inadvertent typo and not some Disney version of the famous “Dewey defeats Truman” newspaper headline that declared President Truman’s opponent the winner ...
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 ...