Wizard of Washington

Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling

AvM. Holli

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Holli dismisses this notion, however, and reveals that presidential reliance on public opinion polls dates back to the New Deal Era, when Franklin Roosevelt employed a first-generation Finnish-American named Emil Hurja to conduct polls for this 1932 and 1936 presidential campaigns.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-03-28
Mått:140 x 216 x 10 mm
Vikt:225 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:World of the Roosevelts
Antal sidor:164
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349634491

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MELVIN G. HOLLI is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author and co-editor of fifteen books on urban, ethnic, and political history. His publication The American Mayor: The Best and Worst Big-City Leaders received extensive review attention and was the subject of a fifty-minute lecture on CSPAN-TV's Book Week.

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'...well-researched and well-written biography of a Finnish American hero.' - Giles C. Ekola, The Finnish American Reporter

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Growing Up in a Frontier Boom Town College Days and Beyond The 1932 Presidential Election Polling and the New Deal Post-New Deal Hurja Publishing, Polling, and Consulting Conclusion