Lessons from Defeated Presidential Candidates

Lessons from Defeated Presidential Candidates Synopsis

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Charles Evans Hughes and the Campaign of 1916, Betty Glad; John W. Davis and 1924, William H. Harbaugh; Personal Grieving and Political Defeat: The Case of Calvin Coolidge, C. Knight Aldrich; Lessons from the 1932 Reelection Campaign of Herbert Hoover, George Nash; Wendell Wilkie, 1940, William Wemple and Kenneth W. Thompson; Thomas Dewey and the Campaigns of 1944 and 1948, The Honorable Herbert Brownell; Adlai Stevenson and the Campaigns of 1952 and 1956, Porter McKeever; Hubert H. Humphrey and the Campaign of 1968, Norman Sherman; Walter Mondale and the 1984 Campaign, Steven M. Gillon; Concluding Observations, Kenneth W. Thompson. Co-published with the Miller Center.