A review by k80uva
The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order by David Levering Lewis

3.0

Definitely held my interest, but I don't finish this book convinced that Wendell Willkie was as important as the author asserts. It feels like there's something a little off about the pacing--maybe too much time devoted to pre-1940, while the 1940 campaign and Willkie's post '40 career, which is maybe the time where he is most notable, is relatively short. There's so much coverage of Republican operatives and their schemes to nominate or stop Willkie that you sometimes lose a sense of the larger American climate. There are also a few editing issues--3 instances I can remember where a quote is repeated at different points in the book.