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 | | Five Days in Philadelphia: 1940, Wendell Willkie, and the Political Convention That Freed FDR to Win World War II
| | by Charles Peters Format: Paperback
Published: July 2006
Category: United States - 20th Century
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Pages: 288 | | |  | | Learn More | | | | Description | | | Historian Charles Peters finds in the 1940 Republican Convention a compelling and critical chapter of American political history. With Franklin Roosevelt in the White House, the Republican opposition knew it had to come up with a strong choice, and the contenders included two isolationists, John Dewey and Robert Taft, along with Wendell Willkie, a businessman who had never held elected office and who had been, for years, a registered Democrat. Peters recreates the hurly-burly and wheeling-and-dealing in Philadelphia, which was truly an old-style political convention, perhaps one of the last before the eye of television tamed them. After several ballots, the Grand Old Party decided to try to 'Win with Willkie,' a decision with profound consequences. Shortly after the Philadelphia convention, France fell to the Nazis, and Roosevelt decided it was time to commit America to England's defense. There was a strong isolationist sentiment in America at the time, and the support of Wendell Willkie (or the lack of opposition) was crucial to FDR's efforts. Peters's account captures a brief, colorful event, and adds to the historical record. |
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