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04163aam a2200493 i 4500 001 57FEFFDC8E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200505011818 008 190927t20202020mauabf b 001 0deng 010 $a 2019044031 020 $a 0674737512 020 $a 9780674737518 035 $a (OCoLC)1111390371 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d HLS $d YDX $d CLE $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E748.W7 $b Z56 2020 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Zipp, Samuel $e author. 245 14 $a The idealist : $b Wendell Willkie's wartime quest to build one world / $c Samuel Zipp. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 393 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Taking flight: Elwood, Puerto Rico, Paris -- Power and the presidency: Akron, New York, Khartoum -- Egypt Is saved: London, Cairo, Alexandria -- A great social laboratory: Ankara -- The imperial dilemma: Beirut and Jerusalem -- How East and West will meet: Baghdad -- First flight: Tehran -- Working with Russia: Kuibyshev, Moscow, Rzhev -- The China mystique: Lanzhou, Chongqing, Xi'an -- A report to the people: Yakutsk, Washington, New York -- One world barnstorming: America and the world -- The narrows of 1944: Kansas City, Wisconsin, Rushville. 520 $a "In August of 1942, as fascism threatened to sweep the world, Wendell Willkie, a charismatic Republican businessman who had run for president two years earlier, boarded the Gulliver and set out with Roosevelt's blessing on a journey by air around the world. As he visited the battlefront in North Africa with General Montgomery, debated a frosty de Gaulle in Lebanon, met with wavering officials in Istanbul and Tehran, almost failed to deliver a letter from FDR to Stalin in Moscow, and was seduced by a shrewdly manipulative Chiang Kai-shek in China, Willkie was struck by the insistent demands for freedom sweeping the world. It was in these distant battlegrounds that he came to understand the true nature of the global war America had only recently joined. In One World, the runaway bestseller he published on his return, Willkie warned of the dangers of "narrow nationalism" and urged his fellow citizens to embrace "equality of opportunity for every race and every nation." Willkie's celebrity at the height of the age of broadcast news--he regularly drew over 30 million listeners--meant that he could take on America Firsters and reach Americans directly in their homes. His call for a more equitable and interconnected world had an electrifying impact on the nation, but his tragic death in 1944 silenced one of America's most effective globalists, a man FDR referred to as "Private Citizen Number One." At a time when "America First" has once again become a rallying cry, Willkie's message is at once chastening and inspiring"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Willkie, Wendell L. $q (Wendell Lewis), $d 1892-1944. 600 17 $a Willkie, Wendell L. $q (Wendell Lewis), $d 1892-1944. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00006184 650 0 $a Internationalism $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Globalization $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Peaceful change (International relations) $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Track two diplomacy $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1933-1945. 650 7 $a Globalization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00943532 650 7 $a Internationalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977173 650 7 $a Peaceful change (International relations) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01055904 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Track two diplomacy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921493 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505015755.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=57FEFFDC8E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search