Five Days In Philadelphia
1940, Wendell Willkie, FDR, and the Political Convention that Freed FDR to Win World War II
2005
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There were four strong contenders when the Republican party met in June of 1940 in Philadelphia to nominate its candidate for the crusading young attorney and rising Republican star Tom Dewey, solid members of the Republican establishment Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg, and dark horse Wendell Willkie, utilities executive, favorite of the literati and only very recently even a Republican. The leading Republican candidates campaigned as isolationists. The charismatic Willkie, newcomer and upstager, was a liberal interventionist, just as anti-Hitler as FDR. After five days of floor rallies, telegrams from across the country, multiple ballots, rousing speeches, backroom deals, terrifying international news, and, most of all, the relentless chanting of "We Want Willkie" from the gallery, Willkie walked away with the nomination. The story of how this happened—and of how essential his nomination would prove in allowing FDR to save Britain and prepare this country for entry into World War II—is all told in Charles Peters' Five Days in Philadelphia . As Peters shows, these five action-packed days and their improbable outcome were as important as the Battle of Britain in defeating the Nazis.
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Charles Peters
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Peters was the founder and former editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly, a political journal. He is currently the President of Understanding Government, an organization he founded in 1999. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Charles T. Peters Jr.: Erotic
