Wendell Willkie"The 12 assessments of Wendell Willkie in this book are exceptionally well done. They are interesting reading about a most interesting man." The Coffeyville (KS) Journal " . . . a remarkable and useful compilation of essays . . . " Indiana Magazine of History Indiana's Wendell Willkie burst upon the national political scene in 1940 when, apparently out of nowhere, he won the Republican nomination for the presidency and ran against Franklin Roosevelt.