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The Idealist - Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World (Hardcover)
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The Idealist - Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World (Hardcover)
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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 Faith A dramatic account of the plane journey undertaken by
businessman-turned-maverick-internationalist Wendell Willkie to
rally US allies to the war effort. Willkie's tour of a planet
shrunk by aviation and war inspired him to challenge Americans to
fight a rising tide of nationalism at home. In August 1942, as the
threat of fascism swept the world, a charismatic Republican
presidential contender boarded the Gulliver at Mitchel Airfield for
a seven-week journey around the world. Wendell Willkie covered
31,000 miles as President Roosevelt's unofficial envoy. He visited
the battlefront in North Africa with General Montgomery, debated a
frosty de Gaulle in Beirut, almost failed to deliver a letter to
Stalin in Moscow, and allowed himself to be seduced by Chiang
Kai-shek in China. Through it all, he was struck by the insistent
demands for freedom across the world. In One World, the runaway
bestseller he published on his return, Willkie challenged Americans
to resist the "America first" doctrine espoused by the war's
domestic opponents and warned of the dangers of "narrow
nationalism." He urged his fellow citizens to end colonialism and
embrace "equality of opportunity for every race and every nation."
With his radio broadcasts regularly drawing over 30 million
listeners, he was able to reach Americans directly in their homes.
His call for a more equitable and interconnected world electrified
the nation, until he was silenced abruptly by a series of heart
attacks in 1944. With his death, America lost its most effective
globalist, the man FDR referred to as "Private Citizen Number One."
At a time when "America first" is again a rallying cry, Willkie's
message is at once chastening and inspiring, a reminder that "one
world" is more than a matter of supply chains and economics, and
that racism and nationalism have long been intertwined.
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