The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order

by David Levering Lewis

Book Overview

In the wake of one of the most tumultuous Republican conventions ever, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and former Democrat who could have saved America's sclerotic political system. Although Wendell Lewis Willkie would lose to FDR, acclaimed biographer David Levering Lewis demonstrates that the corporate chairman-turned-presidential candidate must be regarded as one of the most exciting, intellectually able, and authentically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871404575
• ISBN13: 9780871404572
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.8"