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Lädt ... Dark horse: A biography of Wendell Willkievon Steve Neal
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Wendell Willkie never held a public office, yet he nearly became President of the United States. A registered Democrat until the fall of 1939, he captured the Republican party's nomination less than a year later. It was, by all accounts, a meteoric rise - to win the nomination Willkie defeated such party stalwarts as Thomas Dewey, Robert Taft, and Arthur Vandenberg. These Republican front-runners had been insisting that the war in Europe wasn't a national concern since two oceans protected the US from the aggressors, while for months Willkie had warned of the danger of a Europe controlled by fascists. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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A longtime political reporter and columnist, Steve Neal's biography offers quite a few insights into the factors and failings of Willkie's presidential run Yet his book overall is a disappointment as a biography. Neal devotes most of the book to Willkie's political career, with over a third of its pages spent on his 1940 presidential campaign alone. While this makes sense from the standpoint of Willkie's significance to American history, it effectively condenses the majority of Willkie's years as a lawyer and business executive to a prelude to his political activities. Often, key developments in Willkie's life are not analyzed or even described, merely noted in Neal's rush to get to what he wants to write. As a result, much of Willkie's development, particularly of his political views, tends to get lost. The result is an account that, while readable and even gripping in its evocation of the Willkie phenomenon, comes up short as the book it is advertised as being. ( )