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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Lewis, David L., 1936-     Subjects     Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.     Politicians -- United States -- Biography.     Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lewis, David L., 1936-       by title:      The improbable Wende...       by call number:      921 W736L     Search the Web     Lewis, David L., 1936-     Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.     Politicians -- United States -- Biography.     Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.       MARC Display

The improbable Wendell Willkie : the businessman who saved the Republican Party and his country, and conceived a new world order / David Levering Lewis. by Lewis, David L., 1936- Liverlight Publishing Corporations, a Division of W.W. Norton and Company, 2018. Call #: 921 W736L Subjects 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 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xvi, 371 p. : black & white plates ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Summary:  "Hailed as “the definitive biography of Wendell Willkie” (Irwin F. Gellman), The Improbable Wendell Willkie offers an “engrossing and enlightening appraisal” (Ira Katznelson) 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, acclaimed historian David Levering Lewis demonstrates that the story of this Hoosier- born corporate chairman’s life is “a powerful reminder of practical bipartisanship, visionary internationalism, and committed civil liberties and civil rights” (Katrina vanden Heuvel). 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. “Meticulously researched and brilliantly written” (Douglas Brinkley), The Improbable Wendell Willkie “brings the now largely unknown Willkie to a new generation” (The New Yorker), reclaiming the legacy of an American icon."--From publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 921 W736L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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