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The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and Conceived a New World Order

David Levering Lewis

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#3697 of 3,809 books · #1227 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award (2019).

From historian David Levering Lewis comes a biography of Wendell Willkie, the businessman-turned-presidential candidate. The Improbable Wendell Willkie offers an account of a prominent businessman and Wall Street attorney presidential candidate who could have saved America's sclerotic political system. Although Willkie lost to FDR in 1940, Lewis demonstrates that the story of this Hoosier-born corporate chairman's life is one of practical bipartisanship, visionary internationalism, and committed civil liberties and civil rights. Popular for his downhome mid-western charm and unaffected candor, Willkie possessed a supple intellect and a concealed disdain for political opportunism that, had he not died prematurely, would have revolutionized American politics with its advocacy of bipartisanship and social responsibility. The biography reclaims the legacy of an American icon.

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Liveright Publishing
ISBN-13
9781631493744
Topics
Wendell WillkieAmerican politics1940 presidential election

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