Wendell Willkie never held a public office, yet he nearly became President of the United States. A registered Democrat until the fall of 1939, he captured the Republican party's nomination less than a year later. It was, by all accounts, a meteoric rise - to win the nomination Willkie defeated such party stalwarts as Thomas Dewey, Robert Taft, and Arthur Vandenberg. These Republican front-runners had been insisting that the war in Europe wasn't a national concern since two oceans protected the US from the aggressors, while ...
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Wendell Willkie never held a public office, yet he nearly became President of the United States. A registered Democrat until the fall of 1939, he captured the Republican party's nomination less than a year later. It was, by all accounts, a meteoric rise - to win the nomination Willkie defeated such party stalwarts as Thomas Dewey, Robert Taft, and Arthur Vandenberg. These Republican front-runners had been insisting that the war in Europe wasn't a national concern since two oceans protected the US from the aggressors, while for months Willkie had warned of the danger of a Europe controlled by fascists.
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16 Pages of Photos. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 1st printing; dj w/unlipped price, in mylar; 371 clean, unmarked pages/bibliographic essay, references, index; owner's namee.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x1; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Blind stamp and marking on front end page, else unmarked. Wendell Willkie was a U.S. Republican presidential candidate in 1940 who tried unsuccessfully to unseat President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He subsequently became identified with his famous 'One World' concept of international cooperation.
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