The Idealist - Zipp, Samuel
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Wendell Willkie lost the 1940 presidential election but became Americaâ s 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.

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Wendell Willkie lost the 1940 presidential election but became Americaâ s 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.
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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.