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.

Table of Contents:

Taking flight: Elwood, Puerto Rico, Paris
Power and the presidency: Akron, New York, Khartoum
Egypt Is saved: London, Cairo, Alexandria
A great social laboratory: Ankara
The imperial dilemma: Beirut and Jerusalem
How East and West will meet: Baghdad
First flight: Tehran
Working with Russia: Kuibyshev, Moscow, Rzhev
The China mystique: Lanzhou, Chongqing, Xi'an
A report to the people: Yakutsk, Washington, New York
One world barnstorming: America and the world
The narrows of 1944: Kansas City, Wisconsin, Rushville.