The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling

ISBN-13: 9781349634491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 164 str.

Melvin G. Holli; M. Holli

Opis

The first book-length study of Emil Hurja, who introduced the use of public opinion polls to drive presidential campaigning.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.