Volume 50, Number 18 · November 20, 2003
The Missionary
By Ronald Steel
Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations
by Lloyd E. Ambrosius
Palgrave Macmillan, 233 pp., $75.00; $24.95 (paper)
Woodrow Wilson
by H.W. Brands
Times Books, 168 pp., $20.00
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan, with a foreword by Richard Holbrooke
Random House, 570 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations
by John Milton Cooper Jr.
Cambridge University Press, 454 pp., $38.00
Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House
by Phyllis Lee Levin
Scribner, 606 pp., $35.00
During the past dozen years the image of Woodrow Wilson has undergone a remarkable transformation. The saintly idealist inspired by utopian visions of global brotherhood has been given a new identity as a crusading imperialist warrior. To the chagrin of his old liberal admirers and the applause of his new neoconservative celebrants, Wilson has been invoked as the patron saint of the Iraq war.
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