Remembering Wendell Willkie's One World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894824 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip D Beidler (corresponding author), Philip Beidler |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 87-104 |
| Publication date | 1994-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-024-02-04 |
| OpenAlex | W1973532967 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Fifty years ago, people were purchasing the best-selling American book of World War II by the millions. Today, a handful of specialists could identify it. The book was Wendell L. Willkie's One World. A plea by the unsuccessful 1940 Republican presidential candidate for an enlightened postwar American internationalism, it was also an account of the author's globe-girdling 1942 tour of major war fronts—via a converted army air force bomber supplied by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his likely opponent again in 1944—and of his talks with Allied leaders. Appearing in April 1943 in simultaneous cloth and paperbound editions, the book sold a million copies in two months and doubled that figure by the end of the year. Translated into sixteen languages, it shortly added another million to the sales total worldwide
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| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 1996 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |