Wendell Willkie 
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3/21/2021
Has the One World Idea's Time Come Again?
by Samuel Zipp
Can remembering the “one world” vision for America’s global role—largely forgotten today – help us get beyond both America First and the “liberal world order”?
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SOURCE: Boston Review
8/18/2020
The Conceit of American Indispensability [review]
In his new book, Samuel Zipp Zipp explores the resonance of Willkie’s international ideas through the story of his most quixotic venture.
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SOURCE: Zocalo Public Square
3/29/2020
When Americans Fell in Love with The Ideal of ‘One World’
by Samuel Zipp
In 1943, failed presidential candidate Wendell Willkie advanced a strikingly anti-racist, anti-colonial plan to bring the planet together.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9-10-18
Can the G.O.P. Ever Reclaim Wendell Willkie’s Legacy?
by Thomas Mallon
He ran for President as a business mogul with no political experience, but his similarities with Donald Trump end there.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
6-17-16
Wendell Willkie’s 1940 nomination: When party establishments mattered
by George F. Will
It was the establishment that installed Willkie and it was over the objections of conservatives.
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SOURCE: Bruce W. Dearstyne
6-26-16
Lessons Donald Trump Can Learn from Wendell Willkie
What Trump could learn by studying history.
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3-1-16
The Election of 1940 and the Might-Have-Been that Makes One Shudder
by Ronald L. Feinman
What would have happened if Wendell Willkie was elected in 1940.
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SOURCE: NYT
8-28-15
Before Trump or Fiorina, There Was Wendell Willkie
by Michael Beschloss
Only once in American history has a major political party granted its prize to someone whose principal qualification was to have served as a corporate chief executive.
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SOURCE: OUPblog
8-11-15
Wendell Willkie: a forerunner to Donald Trump
by Lewis L. Gould
The crowds in the galleries chanted “We want Willkie,” and the delegates yielded to what seemed an irresistible tide.
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