Wendell Willkie

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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.