The moralist : Woodrow Wilson and the world he made /
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 economi...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Son of the South
- When a man comes to himself
- Ascent
- Against all odds
- A new freedom
- A president begins
- Lines of accommodation
- Our detached and distant situation
- Moral force
- A psychological moment
- Departures
- The general wreck
- At sea
- Moonshine
- Strict accountability
- Haven
- Dodging trouble
- The world is on fire
- Stumbling in the dark
- The mystic influence of the stars and stripes
- By a whisker
- Verge of war
- Decision
- The associate
- The right men
- One white-hot mass instinct
- Over here, over there
- So many problems per diem
- Defiance
- Final triumph
- Storm warning
- The fog of peace
- Settling the accounts
- Stroking the cat the wrong way
- Paralyzed
- Altogether an unfortunate mess
- Breaking the heart of the world
- Best of the second-raters
- Swimming upstream
- Epilogue.