Idealist - Wendell Willkies Wartime Quest to Build One World

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Wendell Willkie lost the 1940 presidential election but became America's most effective ambassador, embarking on a 7-week plane trip to bolster the allied cause, encountering everyone from de Gaulle and Stalin to Chiang Kai-shek. Against a wave of nationalism, Willkie promoted a message of global interconnection and peaceful engagement. Zusammenfassung Wendell Willkie lost the 1940 presidential election but became America’s most effective ambassador, embarking on a 7-week plane trip to bolster the allied cause, encountering everyone from de Gaulle and Stalin to Chiang Kai-shek. Against a wave of nationalism, Willkie promoted a message of global interconnection and peaceful engagement.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Zipp, Zipp Samuel
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780674737518
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73751-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, International Relations, maritime history, Second World War, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General