
The Moralist
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Fred Sanders
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Patricia O'Toole
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.
In domestic affairs, Wilson was a progressive who enjoyed unprecedented success in leveling the economic playing field, but he was behind the times on racial equality and women’s suffrage. As a Southern boy during the Civil War, he knew the ravages of war, and as president he refused to lead the country into World War I until he was convinced that Germany posed a direct threat to the United States.
Once committed, he was an admirable commander in chief, yet he also presided over the harshest suppression of political dissent in American history.
After the war Wilson became the world’s most ardent champion of liberal internationalism - a democratic new world order committed to peace, collective security, and free trade. With Wilson’s leadership, the governments at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 founded the League of Nations, a federation of the world’s democracies. The creation of the League, Wilson’s last great triumph, was quickly followed by two crushing blows: a paralyzing stroke and the rejection of the treaty that would have allowed the United States to join the League.
After a backlash against internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, Wilson’s liberal internationalism was revived by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and it has shaped American foreign relations - for better and worse - ever since.
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Fine Addition to Large & Growing Wilson Bookshelf
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Great book, wonderfully presented
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Best insight into Woodrow Wilson’s presidency
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Foundation for understanding 20th Century events
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Highly Recommended!
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Idealism meets real politik
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Important history
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The book is well written and researched. O’Toole covers in depth Wilson’s unprecedented wave of reform legislation. Wilson carried on Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft’s campaign against monopolies. He passed the Clayton Antitrust Act. Wilson did away with tariffs, the federal governments only source of income, and created the first permeant progressive income tax. When you read the book, you will discover the long list of his accomplishments. O’Toole did cover his racism and his opposition to the 15th amendment. O’Toole did a good job in presenting an unbiased biography. I enjoyed her beautiful prose. The book is easy to read. The author did a good job recording Wilson’s long history of strokes. I found the parallels to today most interesting and a bit scary. I have always found Wilson’s failure to compromise one of his worst faults. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about Wilson.
The book is just over twenty-three hours. Fred Sanders does a great job in narrating the book. Sanders is an actor and a popular audiobook narrator.
Elegantly Written
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It was good, but marred by the last 3 chapters and the epilog which reviled the authors politics.
A remarkably critical study, for a Democrat.
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He was quite an indecisive boring person.
Wilson an authoritan
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