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Title The improbable Wendell Willkie : the businessman who saved the Republican Party and his country, and conceived a new world order / David Levering Lewis.
Author Lewis, David L., 1936- author.
Publication Info. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton and Company, [2018].
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B WILLKIE    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm
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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 Presents the story of the 1940s Wall Street attorney and presidential candidate to explore his advocacy of civil rights, promotion of America's involvement in international politics, and enduring legacy.
Subject Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780871404572 (hardcover) : $28.95
0871404575 (hardcover)
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