WOODROW WILSON — the man, the educator, the author, the politician, our twenty-seventh President — is vividly presented in the pages of this clearly written volume. Professor Arthur S. Link, Editor-in-Chief of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University, is a scholar who is eminently qualified to write what is probably the best short biography of Woodrow Wilson to date. He provides a fascinating account of the life of this son of a Presbyterian minister who pursued one of the most brilliant political careers in American history.
In this well-balanced, informed biography, Professor Link discusses all the facets of Wilson’s formidable career — his early years, his reforms as president of Princeton University, his political campaigns for the governorship of New Jersey and later the Presidency, his New Freedom program, his neutrality and leadership during World War I, his Fourteen Points and championship of the League of Nations, and more. Here is a fine introduction to the life and times of a remarkable man, and President, who will always be recognized as one of the pivotal figures of American and world history.
This volume marks the inauguration of a series of biographical studies of the outstanding Presidents of the United States, The American Presidents Series.