The moralist : Woodrow Wilson and the world he made
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New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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xviii, 636 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 25 cm
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American overreach in foreign affairs."--Provided by publisher.
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"President from 1913 to 1921, Wilson set a high bar for himself and the country. No president believed more fervently in the primacy of morality in politics or the 'moral force' of ideas. [This book] measures Wilson by his own standards while recounting his unprecedented success as an economic reformer, his grand vision for a peaceful world order, his moral blind spots (on race, women's suffrage, and free speech in wartime), and a final defeat that was largely self-inflicted. The Moralist is a cautionary tale about moral vanity and the limitations of leadership that strays too far from political realities. But it is also a tale of the enduring power of high ideals. Despite Wilson's missteps, his searching moral questions -- about the role of a government in the lives of its people and about the duty of the United States to the larger world -- transformed the economy and revolutionized international relations. Wilson's ideas remained at the heart of American political debate for the rest of the twentieth century. The challenges of the twenty-first require many answers that Wilson could not have supplied, but his central moral question -- What is the right thing for a government to do? -- is as relevant, and as urgent, as ever."--Dust jacket.
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