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  • Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

    • ASIN: 0307277909
    • ISBN: 0307277909
    • Brand: Vintage Books
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FD... [Read More]

  • Woodrow Wilson

    • ASIN: 0805069550
    • ISBN: 0805069550
    • Manufacturer: Times Books

    A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of one of the major shapers of American foreign policyOn the eve of his inauguration as President, Woodrow Wilson commented, "It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs." As America was drawn into the Great War in Europe, Wilson used his scholarship, his p... [Read More]

  • Wilson

    • ASIN: 0399159215
    • ISBN: 0399159215
    • Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

    Longlisted for the 2014 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography“With the prescience that all truly great biographers possess, Berg discovered in Woodrow Wilson a figure who would understand Washington’s current state of affairs.”—Vanity Fair“A brilliant biography that still resonates in Washington today.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin ... [Read More]

  • Woodrow Wilson: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of US Presidents Book 28)

    • ASIN: B01N36VJEU

    Woodrow Wilson* * *Download for FREE + Free BONUS Inside!* * *Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.Before Woodrow Wilson was president of the United States, he was the president of Princeton University and the only occupant of the White House to hold a PhD. But before he became a university professor, he was a twel... [Read More]

  • The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

    • ASIN: 0743298098
    • ISBN: 0743298098
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    “Lucid and elegant...On Wilson’s tortured entrance into World War I, [O’Toole] is truly superb...As a study of Wilson’s relationship with Europe, and the intrigues of his foreign policy administration, the book is exemplary.”—The New York Times “O’Toole does full justice to Wilson’s complexities, but it is with the coming of the ... [Read More]

  • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

    • ASIN: 0399589813
    • ISBN: 0399589813
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current clima... [Read More]

  • Presidents of War

    • ASIN: 0307409600
    • ISBN: 9780307409607
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders a... [Read More]

  • Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (American Intellectual Culture)

    • ASIN: 0742515176
    • ISBN: 0742515176
    • Brand: Brand: Rowman n Littlefield Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

    Woodrow Wilson is best known for his service as the twenty-eighth president of the United States and his influence on American foreign policy in the twentieth century and beyond. Yet Wilson is equally important for his influence on how Americans think about their Constitution and principles of government. Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Libe... [Read More]

  • Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner

    • ASIN: 0195045505
    • ISBN: 0195045505
    • Brand: Oxford University Press USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today; yet he was one of the most influential figures of the Wilson presidency. Wilson's chief political advisor, House played a key role in international diplomacy, and had a significant hand in crafting the Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference. ... [Read More]

  • Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson

    • ASIN: 162157475X
    • ISBN: 162157475X
    • Brand: Regnery History
    • Manufacturer: Regnery History

    After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke in the fall of 1919, his wife, First Lady Edith Wilson, began to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of the Executive Office. Mrs. Wilson had had little formal education and had only been married to President Wilson for four years; yet, in the tenuous peace following the end of World Wa... [Read More]

  • Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

    • ASIN: 0375760520
    • ISBN: 0375760520
    • Brand: Random House Trade
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    National BestsellerNew York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeSilver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign RelationsFinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardFor six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end all wars,” the Big Three—President Wo... [Read More]

  • Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House

    • ASIN: 0300092695
    • ISBN: 0300092695
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

    The importance of Colonel Edward M. House in twentieth-century American foreign policy is enormous: from 1913 to 1919 he served not only as intimate friend and chief political adviser to President Woodrow Wilson but also as national security adviser and senior diplomat. Yet the relationship between House and the president ended in a quarrel at the ... [Read More]

  • The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson

    • ASIN: 070060524X
    • ISBN: 070060524X
    • Brand: University Press of Kansas
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas

    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 war of unprecedented scale. And like Lincoln, he is considered one of the half-dozen best presidents the country has ever had.From 1913-1921, Wilson grappled with momentous issues:... [Read More]

  • Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency

    • ASIN: 0300136048
    • ISBN: 0300136048
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

    Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton—where he enjoyed four productive years followed by four years of wrangling and intense acrimony—reveal much about the kind of man he w... [Read More]

  • America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve

    • ASIN: B00SI02DZE
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small mirac... [Read More]

  • The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents And The Civil War That Divided Them

    • UPC: 884152697499
    • ASIN: 0762796642
    • ISBN: 9780762796649
    • Manufacturer: Lyons Press

    For the first time, readers will experience America’s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history’s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln’s reelection bid, but not before:     * John Tyler engaged in... [Read More]

  • Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study (American Presidents (Transaction Paperback))

    • ASIN: 0765804263
    • ISBN: 0765804263
    • Brand: Brand: Transaction Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    This volume originated when William C. Bullitt began working on a book of studies of the principle personalities surrounding the Treaty of Versailles. In discussing this project with Sigmund Freud, the idea arose of a collaborative work on Woodrow Wilson. They worked on the book for ten years, reading all of Wilson's published books and speeches as... [Read More]

  • The William Howard Taft Presidency (American Presidency Series)

    • ASIN: 0700616748
    • ISBN: 0700616748
    • Brand: Brand: University Press of Kansas
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas

    The only president to later serve as chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft remarked in the 1920s that "I don't remember that I ever was President." Historians have agreed, and Taft is usually portrayed, when written about at all, as nothing more than a failed chief executive. In this provocative new study, the first treatment of t... [Read More]

  • Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times

    • ASIN: 0307597962
    • ISBN: 0307597962
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    "An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street JournalThe definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century—a wholly original account that will foreve... [Read More]

  • Murder and Intrigue on the Mexican Border: Governor Colquitt, President Wilson, and the Vergara Affair (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest Book 43)

    • ASIN: B07G8SCKSV
    • Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press

    In early 1914, Clemente Vergara discovered several of his horses missing and reported the theft to local authorities. The Webb County sheriff arranged for the South Texas rancher to meet with Mexican soldiers near Hidalgo to discuss compensation for his loss. Vergara crossed the Rio Grande, soon succumbed to a vicious physical assault, and was jail... [Read More]

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