Dewey Defeats Truman: A Novel - Hardcover

While Anne Macmurray prepares to choose between two suitors--an ardent union organizer and a wealthy, conservative lawyer--the inhabitants of Owosso, Michigan, anticipate the victory of their hometown hero, Thomas E. Dewey, in the 1948 presidential election. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

r whose last book, Henry and Clara, prompted John Updike to declare Thomas Mallon one of the most interesting American novelists at work, comes a story that perfectly captures the delightful romance and wistful magic of our recent, and more innocent, past.

Thomas Mallon has masterfully appropriated a jubilant legend (and famous headline) of modern American history -- Harry Truman's upset victory over Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election -- and built around it a midwestern Midsummer Night's Dream.

Set in Dewey's hometown of Owosso, Michigan, this is the captivating story of a local love triangle that mirrors the national election contest. As the voters must decide between candidates, so must Anne Macmurray choose between two suitors: an ardent UAW organizer and his polar opposite, a wealthy lawyer who's certain he will ride to state Senate victory on Republican coattails.

As they weave a small-town