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

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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

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