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25. Juli 2005 · How Willkie Ran, Lost and Helped Win the War. WASHINGTON, July 24 - It is June 1940. France has just fallen to the Nazis. A conservative, isolationist Republican Party, incensed at the prospect of ...
August 17, 1940. The ceremony of an acceptance speech is a tradition of our pioneer past—before the days of rapid communication. You all know that I accepted at Philadelphia the nomination of the Republican party for President of the United States. But I take pride in the traditions and not in change for the mere sake of overthrowing precedents.
Wendell Lewis Willkie ( 18 de fevereiro de 1892 – 8 de outubro de 1944) foi um advogado americano que, apesar de desconhecido do grande público, conseguiu a nomeação do Partido Republicano para as eleições presidenciais de 1940. Apesar de um membro da ala liberal do seu partido, ele fez campanha contra várias facetas do programa New ...
Wendell Lewis Willkie (February 8, 1892–October 8, 1944), whose grandparents came to America after the failure of the German democratic revolution of 1848, was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for president in 1940. Willkie was born and raised in rural Indiana, and before undertaking the study of law, he reflected on the progressive intellectual background of his upbringing in Elwood.
2 “Wendell L. Willkie’s Report to the People, Oct. 26 , 1942” pamphlet (New York, ). 3 The term “Global South” did not come into common use until the early twenty-first century. During World War II, Americans might have spoken of large regions within it as “The East,” understood to encompass lands from North Africa to Asia ...
8. Nov. 2018 · A Very Winning Loser. “I’d watch Willkie,” wrote the New York Times columnist Arthur Krock in February 1939, quoting an anonymous Republican observer who admitted that Wendell Willkie was a “long shot” candidate for the presidency of the United States and “the darkest horse in the stable” for 1940. Readers of the Times may have ...
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 ...
