The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World

by Samuel Zipp

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737512
• ISBN13: 9780674737518
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"