The Improbable Wendell Willkie
The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company, [2018]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xvi, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
ISBN:
9780871404572 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Willkie, Wendell | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-356) and index.