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Once the 1944 presidential election advertising campaign geared up past due that springtime, Franklin D. Roosevelt experienced already been in office longer than any chief executive. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive advertising campaign, striking hard at FDR's liberal domestic regulations and the ongoing cost of World Warfare II. Despite gravely deteriorating health, FDR and his feisty jogging mate, the unforeseen Harry Truman, campaigned vigorously against young governor Thomas E. Dewey of NY and old-line Ohio governor John Bricker. Roosevelt's charm and wit, as well as the military successes in Europe and the Pacific, contributed to his sweeping electoral triumph. However the hard-fought advertising campaign would soon take its toll on America's only four-term chief executive. Preeminent historian and biographer Stanley Weintraub recaptures FDR's striking last advertising campaign and the year's momentous incidents, from the rainy city streets where Roosevelt, his lower limbs paralyzed by polio since 1922, rode within an available car, to the battlefronts where the commander-in-chief's pushes were closing in on Hitler and Hirohito. Weintraub, as he did in every his biographies, brings alive the man and his times, capturing those small but sharing details that inform and delight. The result is unforgettable. About the writer: Stanley Weintraub is a Country wide Book Prize finalist, teacher emeritus of arts and humanities at Penn Condition University, and the writer of several histories and biographies, including Silent Nighttime and 11 Days and nights in Dec. Editor of an 10-volume edition on the works of George Bernard Shaw, he lives in Newark, Delaware.
