The Idealist

Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World

Samuel Zipp

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674737518

Publication Date: 03/10/2020

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416 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

29 photos in 24p b&w insert, 1 map

Belknap Press

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Samuel Zipp is a cultural and intellectual historian at Brown University. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, n+1, The Baffler, and The Nation and is the author of Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York. He also coedited a collection of the writings of Jane Jacobs. His website is samuelzipp.com.

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