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The idealist : Wendell Willkie's wartime quest to build one world /

In August of 1942, as fascism threatened to sweep the world, Wendell Willkie, a charismatic Republican businessman who had run for president two years earlier, boarded the Gulliver and set out with Roosevelt's blessing on a journey by air around the world. As he visited the battlefront in North...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zipp, Samuel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Willkie, Wendell L. > (Wendell Lewis), > 1892-1944.
Internationalism > History > 20th century.
Globalization > History > 20th century.
Peaceful change (International relations) > History > 20th century.
Track two diplomacy > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.

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