On his return to Washington on Nov. 4, 1948, someone handed President Truman a copy of an early edition of the Nov. 3 Chicago Tribune, a strongly Republican-leaning newspaper at the time. The blatant error by the Tribune resulted partly from early deadlines caused by a production employees' strike and partly from carelessness. The Tribune had tried to retrieve the papers but a few made it into public. The scene, perhaps the most famous in American political history, took place at Union Station in St. Louis. (Associated Press) Click the picture to see a gallery of Truman photos.
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A multitude of information about the campaign of 1948 - and the rest of the life and times of Harry S. Truman - is available at the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum in Independence, Missouri. Its website is a good place to start: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/The Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University has an overview of the campaign at http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-politicalarchive-1948election.htm
Another overview is at history.com
Among books about Harry Truman, the best known is David McCulloughís Pulitzer prize-winning Truman, published in 1993.
Many other authors have examined the man, and the Truman Library website contains a list of some of their books.
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