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

By Samuel Zipp
Hardcover
$35.00
By Samuel Zipp
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Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize

“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 Wen...

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