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Patricia O’Toole’s new biography, "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made" (Simon & Schuster, 656 pp., ★★★½ out of four), comes at a ripe moment, now that the harsh ...
Her book focuses on Wilson’s international agenda during his presidency, which she persuasively contends represented “the social gospel applied to foreign policy.” While Bur­nidge finds, like Hankins, ...
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psycho-biography of Woodrow Wilson Patrick Weil Harvard University Press, 400pp, £30.95. Purchasing a book may earn the ...
Unfortunately, over the period of more than a century, there has been much hagiography about Woodrow Wilson. This book is meant to be a complement to the many biographies that have previously been ...
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn is a compelling, well-researched, and long overdue reassessment of the 28th president. Cox draws a convincing portrait of Wilson as a chauvinist on matters of race ...
Woodrow Wilson — idealist, author of the Fourteen Points, hero of the European masses after World War I — was all that, and more. Or, really, less.