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Henry A. Wallace’s campaign for the presidency in 1948, amid the intense political battles of the immediate postwar years, gave Americans a genuine alternative to the status quo. Wallace’s was a “voice in the wilderness of doubt,” the California Eagle , a left-wing African-American weekly, concluded on the eve of the election.
Henry A. Wallace (1941–1945) Henry Agard Wallace was born on October 7, 1888, near Orient, Iowa. He shared a name with his grandfather and father as well as their prominence as agricultural leaders. His grandfather was a former Presbyterian minister who edited the Iowa Homestead and converted a small farm journal into Wallace's Farmer, an ...
16 de nov. de 2015 · Wallace also traveled throughout the war-torn world. FDR encouraged him to speak out about the possible shape of the postwar world. "Henry Wallace," wrote columnist James Reston in The New York Times in October 1941, "is now the administration's head man on Capitol Hill, its defense chief, economic boss and No. 1 post war planner."
Wallace's outspoken support of progressive causes made him perhaps the victim of more redbaiting than any other 1940s politician. Maligned as a communist sympathizer at a time when the American public was intolerant to socialism, Wallace's criticisms of administration foreign policy were increasingly out of step with mainstream public opinion.
6 de sept. de 1983 · Henry A. Wallace was watched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation while he was Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of Commerce for Harry S. Truman, and also in his 1948 run ...
8 de abr. de 2024 · New book by eminent historian casts shadow on legacy of Iowa's Henry A. Wallace. Drawing on what he says are previously undisclosed Soviet records, an award-winning historian asserts in a new book ...
Henry A. Wallace. Henry Agard Wallace (* 7. Oktober 1888 bei Orient, Adair County, Iowa; † 18. November 1965 in Danbury, Connecticut) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Zunächst Mitglied der Republikanischen Partei, wechselte er später zu den Demokraten und wurde später kurzzeitig zu einem Mitbegründer der Progressiven Partei .
