The Improbable Wendell Willkie : : the Businessman who Saved the Republican Party and his Country, and Conceived a new World Order
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Elwood, August 17, 1940 -- "Grass-roots stuff" -- Puerto Rico to Commonwealth & Southern -- Willkie v. FDR: the politics of business, the business of politics -- 1940: political science and serendipity -- The Philadelphia story -- Saving the GOP to save freedom -- Pas de deux: Willkie and Roosevelt -- Exceptionalism at work -- One world or nothing -- 1944 -- not this time.
Presents the story of the 1940s Wall Street attorney and presidential candidate to explore his advocacy of civil rights, promotion of America's involvement in international politics, and enduring legacy.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: xvi, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780871404572
0871404575
SUBJECTS
Willkie, Wendell L. -- 1892-1944.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.