Wilson

Wilson

Longlisted for the 2014 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

â€œWith the prescience that all truly great biographers possess, Berg discovered in Woodrow Wilson a figure who would understand Washingtonâ€™s current state of affairs.â€â€”Vanity Fair

â€œA brilliant biography that still resonates in Washington today.â€â€”Doris Kearns Goodwin
Â From Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning, #1 New York Timesâ€“bestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitiveâ€”and revelatoryâ€”biography of one of the great American figures of modern times.

One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson--the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President.

In addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents in the Wilson Archives, Berg was the first biographer to gain access to two recently-discovered caches of papers belonging to those close to Wilson. From this material, Berg was able to add countless details--even several unknown events--that fill in missing pieces of Wilsonâ€™s character and cast new light on his entire life.

From the scholar-President who ushered the country through its first great world war to the man of intense passion and turbulence , from the idealist determined to make the world â€œsafe for democracyâ€ to the stroke-crippled leader whose incapacity and the subterfuges around it were among the centuryâ€™s greatest secrets, the result is an intimate portrait written with a particularly contemporary point of view â€“ a book at once magisterial and deeply emotional about the whole of Wilsonâ€™s life, accomplishments, and failings. This is not just Wilson the icon â€“ but Wilson the man.
Country USA
Manufacturer G.P. Putnam's Sons
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780399159213
ReleaseDate 2013-09-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780399159213

Country	USA
Manufacturer	G.P. Putnam's Sons
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780399159213
ReleaseDate	2013-09-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399159213

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