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A review by homosexual
The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order by David Levering Lewis
2.0
I had to read this for a class so I’m very biased against this book. It was obviously heavily researched so if you REALLY care about the guy, you’ll find tons of info on him in this book.
However, for all intents and purposes I felt like it was too long. Like double what it should be. So often we’d get long tangents of random people’s life stories, and tangents involving Willkie that just felt out of place. But also I never felt like I had a good grasp on “how” he changed the Republican Party or how he “conceived a new world order”. And he randomly does a policy flip during his run for president that just... never gets talked about or acknowledged. Or at least not enough for me to notice/mark it. He was anti-isolationism and then during his Presidential debates switched hard into isolationism and it’s just not acknowledged.
It was obviously well-researched and the author cared a lot, so 2 stars instead of the 1 I feel in my chest.
Also this book made me even angrier at how the rich can just get away with anything and how they’re ALL interconnected silver spoon-fed bastards. Let’s bring back the guillotines.
However, for all intents and purposes I felt like it was too long. Like double what it should be. So often we’d get long tangents of random people’s life stories, and tangents involving Willkie that just felt out of place. But also I never felt like I had a good grasp on “how” he changed the Republican Party or how he “conceived a new world order”. And he randomly does a policy flip during his run for president that just... never gets talked about or acknowledged. Or at least not enough for me to notice/mark it. He was anti-isolationism and then during his Presidential debates switched hard into isolationism and it’s just not acknowledged.
It was obviously well-researched and the author cared a lot, so 2 stars instead of the 1 I feel in my chest.
Also this book made me even angrier at how the rich can just get away with anything and how they’re ALL interconnected silver spoon-fed bastards. Let’s bring back the guillotines.