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Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize“The Idealist is a powerful book, gorgeously written and consistently insightful. Samuel Zipp uses the 1942 world tour of Wendell Willkie to examine American attitudes toward internationalism, decolonization, and race in the febrile atmosphere of the world’s first truly global conflict.”—Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of ...
30 de mar. de 2020 · Zipp’s new book, “The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World,” chronicles a game-changing international trip Willkie took in 1942 as an informal envoy to Roosevelt and describes his resulting “one world” idea: That democratic, anti-imperial international cooperation, rather than nationalism and isolationism, would help position the U.S. as a true leader of the ...
Autres informations. Wendell Lewis Willkie, né à Elwood (Indiana) le 18 février 1892 et mort à New York le 8 octobre 1944, est un avocat et homme politique américain, membre du Parti démocrate puis du Parti républicain. Il est le candidat républicain à la présidence des États-Unis en 1940.
Wendell Lewis Willkie (Elwood , 18 februari 1892 - New York, 8 oktober 1944) was een Amerikaanse advocaat en politicus. Hij is vooral bekend als de Republikeinse presidentskandidaat in 1940 . Levensloop [ bewerken | brontekst bewerken ]
WILLKIE, WENDELL. Wendell Lewis Willkie (February 8, 1892–October 8, 1944), whose grandparents came to America after the failure of the German democratic revolution of 1848, was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for president in 1940. Willkie was born and raised in rural Indiana, and before undertaking the study of law, he reflected on ...
Wendell Willkie, a Midwestern businessman-turned-Republican politician, fought for desegregation, workers’ rights, and small government in his 1940 bid for president. As a result, he won the largest percentage of Republican votes in a generation.
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).
