presidential elections, defeating Dwight D. Eisenhower in the latter. References Further reading Christenson, Reo Millard. The Brannan Plan (University of Michigan Press, 1959) Dean, Virgil W. "Why Not the Brannan Plan?" Agricultural History (1996) 70#2 pp. 268–282 in JSTOR Dean, Virgil W. An opportunity lost: The Truman administration and the farm policy debate (University of Missouri Press, 2006) online Dean, Virgil W. "Farm Policy and Truman's 1948 Campaign." Historian (1993) 55#3 pp: 501-516 Matusow, Allen J. Farm policies and politics in the Truman years (Harvard University Press, 1967). Pratt, William C. "The Farmers Union, McCarthyism, and the Demise of the Agrarian Left." Historian (1996) 58#2 pp: 329-342. online Schoenebaum, Eleonora W. ed. Political Profiles: The Truman Years (1978) pp 51–53 External links 1903 births 1992 deaths American Quakers Lawyers from Denver Politicians from Denver Sturm College of Law alumni Truman administration cabinet members 20th-century American politicians United States Secretaries of Agriculture 20th-century Quakers