Wendell Willkie and our better angels.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

In the course of writing a book about Wendell Willkie's amazing come-from-nowhere victory at the 1940 Republican convention and what it meant for the world, I gradually realized that I was describing a time when the American people--or at least a majority of them--managed in many ways to rise a bit above the usual limits of human nature. Christianity was kinder. Generosity, idealism, and good...