Wendell Willkie has been compared to Donald Trump, but he powerfully articulated liberal ideals of political and economic freedom. By Wendell L. Willkie II Wendell Willkie ( Murray Becker / AP ) ...

This biography is one part political yarn, one part love letter to an extinct creature: the liberal Republican. Willkie himself lost the White House in a blowout and died, unexpectedly at age 52 ...

As Mr. Lewis shows in “The Improbable Wendell Willkie,” the 1940 election wasn’t the only time that Willkie startled America into new thinking.

Fortnight ago Wendell Willkie had his portrait painted. He sat in Rushville, Ind. and Manhattan, never more than 40 minutes at a time, for a, total of two hours and a half. Last week he pronounced ...

This button, used by Republican Wendell Willkie in his 1940 campaign against President Franklin Roosevelt, is often traced back to a New Yorker cartoon, where a mother and daughter are sitting ...

In The Wall Street Journal, John Steele Gordon writes that in 1940, Wendell Wilkie challenged FDR to debate, but the president didn't want to give his foe the exposure.

The year`s first Great Americans Series definitive was issued Feb. 16 honoring Wendell L. Willkie, who gave President Franklin Delano Roosevelt his most serious election challenge. The 75-cent stam… ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis talked about Wendell Willkie, the popular Republican businessman who lost the 1940 presidential race to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The ...

Wendell Wilkie Gunn, right, and President E.B. Norton, left, exit Cramer Way at Florence State College on Gunn's first day of school, Sept. 11, 1963.

Wendell Wilkie Gunn, right, departs the University of North Alabama -- then Florence State College -- in this 1963 Associated Press photo. (Associated Press) FLORENCE, Alabama -- The first black ...