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, America's 28th president, left the White House in 1921 after serving two terms. But today he remains a divisive figure. He's associated with a progressive income tax and the ...

Longtime readers of Joyce Carol Oates won’t be deceived by the portrait of an elegant lace-swathed lady on the cover of her new novel, “The Accursed”(Harper, 669 pp., $27.99).