One World: Wendell Willkie, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the quest for a united world

Lecture by Blanche Wiesen Cook (City University New York) and Samuel Zipp (Brown University).

Chair: Victoria Phillips (LSE).

To sign up, click here

Abstract

In 1943, in his bestselling book One World, the former Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie gave a name to the globalization we’ve lived with ever since. In this conversation, Samuel Zipp and Blanche Wiesen Cook join Victoria Phillips to talk about Willkie’s 1942 journey around the world, the book that revealed the true global dimensions of World War II, and the place of Willkie’s vision in the liberal internationalist political culture led by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Sponsored by LSE The Americas In World History Research Cluster

The event is part of the series Biographies of Interwar -Isms.