- Map. In the late summer and fall of 1942, Wendell Willkie traveled around the world in forty-nine days, leaving from New York on August 26 and returning to Washington, DC, on October 14.
- Introduction
- 1. Taking Flight: Elwood, Puerto Rico, Paris
- 2. Power and the Presidency: Akron, New York, Khartoum
- 3. Egypt Is Saved: London, Cairo, Alexandria
- 4. A Great Social Laboratory: Ankara
- 5. The Imperial Dilemma: Beirut and Jerusalem
- 6. How East and West Will Meet: Baghdad
- 7. First Flight: Tehran
- 8. Working with Russia: Kuibyshev, Moscow, Rzhev
- 9. The China Mystique: Lanzhou, Chongqing, Xi’an
- 10. A Report to the People: Yakutsk, Washington, New York
- 11. One World Barnstorming: America and the World
- 12. The Narrows of 1944: Kansas City, Wisconsin, Rushville
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


The Idealist
Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World
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Publication Date: 03/10/2020