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    The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
    The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
    The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
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    The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order

    Written by David Levering Lewis

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

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    About this audiobook

    In the wake of one of the most tumultuous conventions in Republican history, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and Wall Street attorney for president. Though Wendell Willkie would lose to FDR, David Levering Lewis reveals in this news-making reclamation that the story of this Hoosier-born corporate chairman's life is the story of an America that could have been. Popular for his down-home Midwestern charm and unaffected candor, Willkie possessed a supple intellect and a concealed disdain for political opportunism that, had he not died prematurely, would have revolutionized American politics with its advocacy of bipartisanship and social responsibility. Not only was he the first presidential candidate to speak before the NAACP, advocating a civil rights movement in the 1940s, but Willkie also bucked American isolationism and became the first to champion the nation's involvement in international politics. Vibrantly recounted, The Improbable Wendell Willkie affirms the legacy of an American icon.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateNov 27, 2018
    ISBN9781684411696
    The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
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    David Levering Lewis

    Dr David Lewis read for a doctorate at the Department of Experimental Psychology, at the University of Sussex. After qualifying as a clinical psychologist and psychopathologist, that is someone who studies mental illness, he founded a registered UK charity to help people with stress and anxiety problems. More recently he set up a not-for-profit website, from which he provides free guidance and answer questions sent in by visitors. Over the past years, he has published more than 30 books on psychological topics, most of which can be purchased from Amazon or Amazon resellers. He has also appeared in numerous television and radio programmes on psychological and medical topics, including Secret Eaters and Embarrassing Bodies (Channel 4). He lives near Brighton on the south coast of England and is chairman of Mindlab International, an independent research laboratory based at the University of Sussex.

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      Hyperbolic (as the title indicates) and a bit repetitive—party bosses recruited Willkie to combat isolationists in their own party. They didn’t quite succeed, but Lewis argues that Willkie’s prominence at least allowed for a bit of bipartisanship against Nazis before Pearl Harbor.