Charles Peters | Five Days in Philadelphia: Wendell Willkie, Franklin Roosevelt, and the 1940 Convention That Saved the Western World
Recorded Jul 28, 2005
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The year, 1940; the place, Philadelphia: After five days of rousing speeches and multiple ballots, Wendell Willkie won the 1940 Republican nomination. The story of how this happened - and how essential his nomination was in allowing FDR to save Britain and prepare the U.S. for entry into World War II - is told in Five Days in Philadelphia. Charles Peters is the author of How Washington Really Works and founder and editor of The Washington Monthly.
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