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O'Toole, Patricia.
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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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O'Toole, Patricia.
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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The moralist : Woodrow Wilson and the world he made / Patricia O'Toole.
by
O'Toole, Patricia.
Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Call #:
973.913 W746o
Subjects
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Presidents
--
United
States
--
Biography.
United
States
--
Politics and government
--
1913-1921.
United
States
--
Foreign
relations
--
Moral
and
ethical
aspects
.
ISBN:
9780743298094 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Woodrow Wilson and the world he made
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description:
xviii, 636 p. : ill., portraits, maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary:
"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."--From publisher.
"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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