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Set against the backdrop of the Korean War and escalating cold war tensions, the 1952 presidential campaign culminated in a landslide victory by Dwight D. Eisenhower over Adlai Stevenson. It was the first time since 1928 that a Republican had won a presidential election. Although there was little election-night suspense, the nominating process for both major parties was bitter and hard fought. It exposed deep internal divisions, especially within the Republican Party, and included accusations of candidates’ being “soft on communism” and warnings by Senator Joseph McCarthy about the encroaching Red Menace. It also featured one of the most memorable moments in 20th century U.S. political history: the “Checkers” speech given by GOP vice-presidential nominee Richard Nixon in the wake of allegations of financial impropriety. Gary Donaldson makes the case that 1952 marked the end of the Roosevelt-Truman era, the end of the era of the Great Depression and World War II; and the beginning of what can be called a modern era in postwar American history.
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Gary A. Donaldson (PhD, LSU) is the Keller Foundation Chair in American History at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He is the author of numerous books on American political and diplomatic history, including The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960, Liberalism's Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964, Truman Defeats Dewey, and America at War since 1945. He is currently completing a biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
