United States History - 20th Century - 1901 to 1945, Executive Branch, United States History - 20th Century - Wars & Conflict, U.S. - Political Biography, World War I, U.S. Politics - History
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Overview
In this comprehensive biography, Kendrick Clements examines the brilliant successes as well as the failures of Wilson's public career as professor, president of Princeton University, governor of New Jersey, and president. The best available one-volume biography of our twenty-eighth president. --History
Editorials
John A. Garraty
Deserves to be read...clearly written, well paced, and not afraid to offer opinions of its own.— Journal of American History
Presidential Study Quarterly
An engaging and useful book...a balanced treatment of Wilson's strengths and weaknesses, his triumphs and failures.School Library Journal
YA A well documented and summarized history in which Clements gives the background for and the moral reasons on which Wilson based his decisions. This easily read and understood book presents Wilson as the first president to hold office once most Americans had become aware of their nation's global reach. Wilson, like those who followed him, struggled to balance the protection of national interests, the rights of other peoples, and the promotion of national ideals in a world being radically transformed by war, revolution, and nationalism. This is a brief but excellent book about the period and about the complicated, far-sighted president who tried to establish the first world government, The League of Nations. Barbara Batty, Port Arthur Independent School DistrictBook Details
Published
August 1, 2003
Publisher
CQ Press
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781568027654