Volume 47, Number 15 · October 5, 2000
Mr. Fix-It
By Ronald Steel
Woodrow Wilson
by Louis Auchincloss
Lipper/Viking, 128 pp., $19.95
The most inspirational of American presidents, Woodrow Wilson is also in some ways the most representative. In his idealism, his moralizing, and his insatiable tinkering to make everything better for everyone's own good, he is America's inner self. That is why we can never escape him. Nor is there any current interest in doing so. The recent revival of interest in his schemes for global democratization as an instrument of American influence give him a special relevance.
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