A review by frenchhornhero1995
The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order by David Levering Lewis

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

I've always said some of the greatest men are those who came up short of achieving the permanence in history they fully deserve. Wendell Willkie is definitely one of them. Certainly a man with many faults, many eccentricities and many contradictions (he was an uncompromisingly fierce advocate of civil rights yet a hardcore fan of Woodrow Wilson), but a man with convictions and a man as Levering Lewis so eloquently portrays was a man who fought for true equality and nothing short of it. As a result, Levering Lewis makes a compelling case why the man who's work in Racial Equality among many pursuits was the namesake of the NAACP's first building is one of our history's most underrated figures, but also should be considered an essential one as well. If you're into obscure political or historical figures this biography on the great Wendell Willkie is worth picking up especially by as compelling a biographer as David Levering Lewis.