The Improbable Wendell Willkie (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
416
Utgivningsdatum
2020-01-10
Förlag
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Illustratör/Fotograf
30 illustrations
Illustrationer
30 illustrations
Dimensioner
206 x 137 x 28 mm
Vikt
318 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781631496257

The Improbable Wendell Willkie

The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order

av David Levering Lewis
Häftad,  Engelska, 2020-01-10
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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 Americas sclerotic political system. Although Willkie lost to FDR in 1940, acclaimed historian David Levering Lewis demonstrates that the story of this Hoosier- born corporate chairmans 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.
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David Levering Lewis, the author of Gods Crucible, is professor emeritus of history at New York University. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal, Lewis received the Pulitzer Prize for each volume of his W.E.B. Du Bois biography. He lives in New York City.

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