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A noted historian offers a definitive account of the administration of Woodrow Wilson, detailing Wilson's unusual route to the White House, his campaign against corporate interests, his influential shaping of American foreign policy, his ...
Examines the political principles of Woodrow Wilson that influenced his presidency and the impact he had on United States and the progressive movement.
1, 1924, RSBP box 103; WW, quoted in David F. Houston, Eight Kars with Wilson's Cabinet, 191; to 1920 (Garden City, N.Y., 1926), vol. 1, p. 141. Grace Bryan Hargreaves manuscript biography of Bryan, WJB Papers, box 65, LC; WJB quoted in ...
Margaret Frith offers a fascinating look at how this magnificent and tragic figure handled debilitating illness, heartbreak, and "the war to end all wars."
Their misunderstandings of Wilson in his relation to his faith were legion , and the common modern aversion to Christianity added to their errors . For Wilson's first critics in Europe , the renowned figures of Keynes and Nicolson ...
This volume shows us the development of a great American leader's political understanding and ideals.
The best of presidents seem to serve in the worst of times, and Woodrow Wilson is no exception. Like Lincoln, Wilson was charged with leading the United States through a...
Woodrow Wilson's presidency marked a seminal period in American history. Wilson's progressive reforms laid the foundation for FDR's New Deal and ushered the nation into its modern era. In foreign...
A rich repository of ideas on the American people and America’s purpose in the world, these works reveal the thoughts of one of the most acute analysts and actors in the drama of American politics.
A political scientist who went on to become president, Woodrow Wilson envisioned a "responsible government" in which a strong leader and principled party would integrate the separate executive and legislative...