The other day, I was wandering around Barnes & Noble to kill time, I found a couple of very interesting books -- Mason Drukman's Wayne Morse: A Political Biography and Charles Peters' Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World.

In the end, I only bought the first (a decision I am certainly not regretting -- I'll tell you about the book when I finish it later this summer). Nevertheless, I'm kicking myself for not buying the second, especially after reading Paul Glastris' review of the book in this issue of Washington Monthly. If you don't know much about Wendell Willkie -- or even if you do -- this sounds like a great find. Peters writes that without Willkie's courage and foresight (agreeing with FDR on preparation for the war), it might have been very difficult for America to have been successful in the war. Perhaps I'll buy it myself at some point.