Wendell Willkie : Hoosier internationalist

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Wendell Willkie : Hoosier internationalist

edited by James H. Madison

Indiana University Press, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-169) and index

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"The 12 assessments of Wendell Willkie in this book are exceptionally well done. They are interesting reading about a most interesting man." -The Coffeyville (KS) Journal " . . . a remarkable and useful compilation of essays . . . " -Indiana Magazine of History Indiana's Wendell Willkie burst upon the national political scene in 1940 when, apparently out of nowhere, he won the Republican nomination for the presidency and ran against Franklin Roosevelt. After his defeat, he traveled widely and returned to write One World, which had a tremendous impact on the then-isolationist United States. "There was about him," the New York Times editorialized, "a warm and winning sincerity . . . a natural straightforwardness which left untouched no one who knew him." These essays by a distinguished group of historians recognize one of the state's most famous native sons and reassess his impact on history one hundred years after his birth.

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Foreword Herman B Wells Thinking About Wendell Willkie: An Introduction James H. Madison Part I: Wendell Willkie in Indiana ....America Willkie as a Hoosier: From Elwood to Rushville and In Between George T. Blakey Strange Bedfellows: The Utility Magnate as Politician Mark H. Leff Seeking the Presidency: Willkie as Politician Ross Gregory Willkie as Liberal: Civil Liberties & Civil Rights Harvard Sitkoff Part II: Wendell Willkie & the World One World: An American Perspective Howard Jones One World: A View from France Andre Kaspi Modernizing the Republican Foreign Policy Agenda A.S. Manykin Address of Wendell L. Willkie, Foundation Day, Indiana University, May 4, 1938 Bibliographic Essay Wendell Willkie Chronology Contributors Index Illustrations precede Part II

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