David Pietrusza is the author of 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America as well as the Edgar Award-finalist Rothstein: the Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed the 1919 World Series. He has appeared on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show, C-SPAN BookTV, and the History Channel.
David Pietrusza appears in the following:
God and taxes: A newly discovered Eisenhower talk
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
In newly recovered audio from our collections, Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses a Books and Authors Luncheon audience. Historian David Pietrusza weighs in on the surviving audio from the Nov 23, 1948 speech.
LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
JFK said during the 1960 election that nominating LBJ as his vice president was inconsequential because – in his words - "I’m 43 years old. I’m not going to die in office." David Pietrusza’s new book about the 1960 presidential race and how it shaped America today is 1960 ...
