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15 de nov. de 2020 · Wendell Willkie, born in 1892 and raised in a modest household in Elwood, Indiana, had a vibrant journey on his way to the Republican convention in 1940. From working in the Caribbean where first-hand experience of plantations catalysed his anti-imperialist fervour, to removing the Ku Klux Klan from a school board whilst serving as an attorney, Willkie was not a career politician.
24 de ene. de 2023 · Willkie was much more than a plump, rumpled, defeated presidential candidate; he was a fascinating and enthusiastic idealist. He represented a major strain of centuries-old thought, and Zipp connects that well with American thinking. This is not a biography; David Levering Lewis has given us that in his The Improbable Wendell Willkie (2018).
17 de mar. de 2024 · Wendell L. Willkie II Co-Chair, Freedom House Board of Trustees Willkie is currently adjunct professor of law at New York University, as well as an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, following more than twenty years as the general counsel and a member of the executive leadership of a major, multinational manufacturing company.
Wendell Lewis Willkie was an American lawyer, corporate executive and the 1940 Republican nominee for president. Willkie appealed to many convention delegates as the Republican field's only interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allies.
19 de jul. de 2021 · Wendell Willkie's Wartime Internationalism. pp. $35.00 (hardcover). In September 1942, Wendell Willkie and a handful of companions embarked on a trans-continental voyage by airplane, beginning in New York and heading down to South America and then across the Atlantic to Africa, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and China, before returning to ...
2 “Wendell L. Willkie’s Report to the People, Oct. 26 , 1942” pamphlet (New York, ). 3 The term “Global South” did not come into common use until the early twenty-first century. During World War II, Americans might have spoken of large regions within it as “The East,” understood to encompass lands from North Africa to Asia ...
Wendell Willkie died in 1944 at the height of his powers. He Only the elders of this generation can personally recall the passion aroused by the presidential election of 1940, but the story of Wendell Lewis Willkie (1892-1944), electrifies us more than seventy-five years later.
