The Idealist by Samuel Zipp
Wendell Willkie lost the 1940 presidential election but became Americas most effective ambassador, embarking on a 7-week plane trip to bolster the allied cause, encountering everyone from de Gaulle and Stalin to Chiang Kai-shek. Against a wave of nationalism, Willkie promoted a message of global interconnection and peaceful engagement.If isolationist slogans such as ‘America First’ drive you to despair, The Idealist might be the
book for you…Zipp…has captured Willkie’s ‘brief, blazing moment,’ a little-remembered interlude when America was at war but already worrying about the postwar orderYounger readers, dismayed by today’s various nationalisms, may be comforted to learn that isolationist and internationalist impulses—like so much else—are cyclical phenomena.
As a new Administration now looks to reimagine US foreign policy in an increasingly chaotic world beset by global challenges from the pandemic to climate change, Zipp’s account of Willkie’s travels and ideas offers some food for thought. -- Michael Sheldrick * Forbes *
Exhilarating and timely…Makes the case for a return to Willkie’s thinking about interdependence and international cooperation…By a coincidence, Zipp’s book has appeared amid a global pandemic that has both highlighted the need to transcend nationalism and its intractability. -- Dexter Fergie * New Republic *
The Idealist is a powerful book, gorgeously written and consistently insightful. Samuel Zipp uses the 1942 world tour of Wendell Willkie to examine American attitudes toward internationalism, decolonization, and race in the febrile atmosphere of the world’s first truly global conflict. By showing that Willkie’s wartime tour offered a preview of globalization, Zipp challenges now-dominant interpretations of World War II. -- Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith
This deeply researched and wonderfully written book leads us to wonder how the twentieth century might have unfolded if the United States had embraced Wendell Willkie’s ‘new world idea.’ It’s not too late, because Willkie’s wisdom rings through The Idealist and speaks urgently to today’s America. -- Stephen Kinzer, author of All the Shah’s Men
This is a beautifully written, ambitious, confident, and capacious book that does a wonderful job of situating Wendell Willkie and his vision for ‘one world’ in a historical context. Its breadth is truly impressive. The reader has a sense of being a participant on Willkie’s journey, seeing the world as it stood in 1942. An outstanding book. -- Melani McAlister, author of The Kingdom of God Has No Borders
Zipp’s breathtaking account of Wendell Willkie’s wartime world tour centers on the transformational concept of One World. Tackling Willkie’s idealistic, often maligned push for an independent and profoundly interconnected world, this riveting tale speaks to some of the most pressing concerns of our present age. -- Christopher Nichols, Director, Oregon State University Center for the Humanities
This insightful and nuanced portrayal successfully elucidates Willkie’s globalist politics and America’s emergence as a world leader. * Publishers Weekly *
Zipp's engrossing book will be of interest to not just historians, but anyone interested in understanding how ordinary Americans responded to the global changes in governance, politics, and culture that took place during these prewar and postwar years. -- Steven P. Rodriguez * New Books Network *
Samuel Zipp is a cultural and intellectual historian at Brown University. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, n+1, The Baffler, and The Nation and is the author of Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York. He also coedited a collection of the writings of Jane Jacobs.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674737518 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674737512 |
| Titel | The Idealist |
| Autor | Samuel Zipp |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Harvard University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2020-03-10 |
| Seitenanzahl | 416 |
| Preise | Winner of Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize 2021 (United States) |
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