Wilson

Wilson

In the tradition of Truman, John Adams, and Team of Rivals, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning biographer of Charles Lindbergh, Maxwell Perkins, and Samuel Goldwyn sheds new light on a president and his presidency in a way that redefines our understanding of a tide-turning historical moment.

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 Wilsonâ€”the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the twenty-eighth 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 detailsâ€”even several unknown eventsâ€”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 viewâ€”a book at once magisterial and deeply emotional about the whole of Wilsonâ€™s life, accomplishments, and failings. This is not just Wilson the iconâ€”but Wilson the man.

Country	USA
Author	A. Scott Berg
Binding	Audio CD
Brand	Berg, A. Scott/ Bobb, Jeremy (NRT)
EAN	9781442365872
Edition	Unabridged
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	1442365870
Label	Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Audio
MPN	Relay time: 950min; 26 Units
NumberOfItems	26
NumberOfPages	26
PartNumber	Relay time: 950min; 26 Units
PublicationDate	2013-09-10
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio
ReleaseDate	2013-09-10
Studio	Simon & Schuster Audio

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