Volume 39, Number 1 & 2 · January 16, 1992
The Presbyterian Nietzsche
By Garry Wills
Woodrow Wilson
by August Heckscher
Scribner's, 743 pp., $35.00
Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace
by Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, translated by Herbert H. Rowen
University of California Press, 495 pp., $34.95
Young Nietzsche: Becoming A Genius
by Carl Pletsch
Free Press, 261 pp., $22.95
America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State
by Ronald Schaffer
Oxford University Press, 244 pp., $27.95
In the summer of 1908, the president of Princeton University, recovering from one of his many mysterious illnesses, was staying at a country place in Scotland; but he broke off his vacation to visit Edinburgh, where he hung around the telegraph office and newsstands, just in case the Democratic convention, meeting in Denver, should nominate him for the presidency. The absurdity of this expectation can be tested if we remember that he had never, at that point, held or even run for public office—never, in fact, attended a Democratic convention.
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