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The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president

in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow

Wilson scholars.

A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of

Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative

president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation

that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would prove central to

governance through the early twenty-first century, including the

Federal Reserve system and the Clayton Antitrust Act; he guided the

nation through World War I; and, although his advocacy in favor of

joining the League of Nations proved unsuccessful, he nonetheless

established a new way of thinking about international relations

that would carry America into the United Nations era. Yet Wilson

also steadfastly resisted progress for civil rights, while his

attorney general launched an aggressive attack on civil

liberties.

Even as he reminds us of the foundational scope of Wilson’s

domestic policy achievements, John Milton Cooper, Jr., reshapes our

understanding of the man himself: his Wilson is warm and

gracious—not at all the dour puritan of popular imagination. As the

president of Princeton, his encounters with the often rancorous

battles of academe prepared him for state and national politics.

Just two years after he was elected governor of New Jersey, Wilson,

now a leader in the progressive movement, won the Democratic

presidential nomination and went on to defeat Theodore Roosevelt

and William Howard Taft in one of the twentieth century’s most

memorable presidential elections. Ever the professor, Wilson relied

on the strength of his intellectual convictions and the power of

reason to win over the American people.

John Milton Cooper, Jr., gives us a vigorous, lasting record of

Wilson’s life and achievements. This is a long overdue, revelatory

portrait of one of our most important presidents—particularly

resonant now, as another president seeks to change the way

government relates to the people and regulates the economy.

From the Hardcover edition.

PROLOGUE   THIS MAN'S MIND AND SPIRIT"

1 TOMMY  

2 WOODROW 

3 PROFESSOR  

4 BOLD LEADER  

5 ACADEMIC CIVIL WAR  

6 GOVERNOR  

7 NOMINEE  

8 THE GREAT CAMPAIGN  

9 PREPARATION  

10  BEGINNINGS   

11  TAKEN AT THE FLOOD  

12  TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY  

13  IRONY AND THE GIFT OF FATE

14  THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION

15  SECOND FLOOD TIDE  

16 TO RUN AGAIN  

17  PEACE AND WAR  

18  WAGING WAR  

19 VICTORY  

20  COVENANT  

21  PEACEMAKING ABROAD AND AT HOME

22  THE LEAGUE FIGHT  

23  DISABILITY  

24 DOWNFALL  

25 TWILIGHT  

Notes  

Sources and Acknowledgments 

Index  

John Milton Cooper, Jr., is professor of

history at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of

Breaking the Heart of the World: Wilson and the Fight for the

League of Nations and The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow

Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, among other books. He was

recently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for

Scholars in Washington, D.C. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

From the Hardcover edition.

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“Cooper’s much-anticipated biography finally gives Wilson his

due. The preeminent living historian of Wilson and his era, Cooper

has studied the man an his times for decades…he now presents us

with his magnum opus. The book is deeply, indeed exhaustively

researched, and beautifully, often movingly narrated. It is far and

away the best biography of the 28th president we have, and as such

it is unlikely to be surpassed.”

—Boston Globe

“Cooper’s monumental new biography seeks to revive Wilson for the

21st century—not simply to narrate a presidential life, but to

explain why he deserves our national esteem….An admiring and

engaging work of presidential revisionism…. A powerful, deeply

researched and highly readable case for keeping Wilson in the top

ranks of American presidents.”

—New York Times Book Review

“Wilson comes alive in Cooper’s insightful and important

biography…. It’s easy to see why Wilson captures many imaginations.

We still want to believe what Wilson believed: that there is a

common right, that we can find it, and that it matters most of

all.”

—Newsweek

“Cooper clearly admires his subject but is not blind to his faults.

His is a nuanced portrait of the 28th president…. It also offers

lessons for another intellectual professor-turned-president, who

combines principle with pragmatism. He, Wilson, and Teddy Roosevelt

are the only presidents to receive a Nobel Peace Prize while still

in office.”

—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“A noted Woodrow Wilson expert comprehensively examines the life

and career of America’s 28th president…. Cooper exhibits complete

command of his materials, a sure knowledge of the man and a nuanced

understanding of a presidency almost Shakespearean in its

dimensions.”

—Kirkus (Starred review)

“[O]ur leading Wilson authority…offers a comprehensive,

felicitously written biography aimed at scholars but accessible to

general readers, too…. He admires Wilson for his faith, learning,

eloquence, and executive skill while conceding that he had to learn

foreign policy on the job—yet established America as an

international player.”

—Library Journal (Starred review)

“In this spellbinding new biography, sure to take its place as the

definitive one volume life, John Milton Cooper rescues Woodrow

Wilson from historical caricature. He gives us the Progressive

champion whose New Freedom transformed the role of government and

offered later presidents—FDR and LBJ come to mind—a textbook

example of presidential persuasion and legislative mastery. Behind

Wilsonian idealism is Wilson the idealist—a man of soaring vision

and tragic blind spots, furtive charm and unbridled passions,

global ambitions and unyielding enmities. Crafted with a

scholarship and eloquence worthy of its subject, Cooper’s Wilson is

intensely moving, sometimes infuriating, and surprisingly

contemporary. Above all, it lives.”

—Richard Norton Smith, author of Patriarch: George Washington

and the New American Nation

“None of our most consequential presidents have been as elusive as

Woodrow Wilson. But in this wise and often moving work, John Milton

Cooper, Jr. takes his full measure—as scholar and orator,

personality and politician, visionary and statesman. It is a

triumph of American biography, both deeply learned and gracefully

crafted.”

—Michael Kazin, author of A Godly Hero: The Life of William

Jennings Bryan

“John Cooper’s Wilson is the triumphant product of a

dedicated life’s work. Cooper has earlier written, with insight and

authority, The Warrior and the Priest, a comparison of T.R.

and Wilson, and Breaking the Heart of the World, a study of

the making and rejection of the Treaty of Versailles. In the

process of preparing those absorbing works and going on to write

this incomparable biography, Cooper has read everything significant

that Wilson ever wrote, from love letters to political theory, and

also read everything significant that has been written about

Wilson. He has now utilized his unequalled learning in his

interpretations and evaluations of Wilson’s life, the subject of

this sprightly, authoritative, and eminently readable book.”

—John Blum, author of V Was for Victory: Politics and American

Culture During World War II

“A landmark work, the best one-volume biography ever written

about the 28th president, and political history as its

finest.  With great deftness, Cooper describes and evaluates

Wilson’s personality and intellect, in ways that will surprise many

readers. He thereby illuminates the idealism and tragedy, the

insight and the blindness, of one of the monumental figures in the

nation’s history.”

—Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy:

Jefferson to Lincoln

“John Milton Cooper has given us a rich and thoughtful portrait of

a transformative, controversial and resonant president. 

Americans who remember Woodrow Wilson as a dour scholar-president

will find a vastly more complicated and fascinating man in the

pages of Cooper's sweeping new book.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer

Prize-winning author of American Lion

 “There is no more accomplished Woodrow Wilson scholar than

John Milton Cooper, and this magisterial, judicious, deeply

researched book—the culmination of decades of study—shows the

author at the zenith of his powers. Cooper’s book

demonstrates Wilson’s importance to our own generation, and his

powerful judgments will shape the way we view the 28th President

for a very long time.”—Michael Beschloss, author of Presidential

Courage

“Woodrow Wilson continues to intrigue—and divide—us. At once an

idealist expressing the noblest of liberal sentiments and a racist,

an intellectual and a skilled politician, a man capable of great

kindness and great vindictiveness—John Milton Cooper's masterly

biography describes him warts and all. A full and fascinating study

of the man and his turbulent times.” —Margaret MacMillan, author of

Paris 1919

 “A riveting account of one of America’s most intellectually

magnetic, yet also enigmatic, presidents. John Milton Cooper Jr.

does a superb job of  portraying the aspirations of Wilson’s

idealistic internationalism while at the same time detailing the

realistic pitfalls that helped undermine it. Cooper has provided a

fascinating read for those who want to understand a presidency that

helped set the tone for U.S. foreign policy in the 20th Century.” —

James A. Baker, III, 61st U.S. Secretary of State

“John Milton Cooper has written an important biography about a man

who made—and continues to make—a large difference.  An

enjoyable and enlightening read.” —George P. Shultz, former

Secretary of State

“A rich and readable study by a leading historian who has made

Wilson and his times his life work.  A fine combination of

sound scholarship and compelling narrative.” —James MacGregor

Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roosevelt: Soldier of

Freedom 1940-1945

“Of all the important presidents of the 20th century, Woodrow

Wilson has always been the least-known and seemed

the least-knowable. Now, John Milton Cooper, Jr., has written

a crisp clear eyed account of the life of this extraordinary but

deeply flawed leader who began his career as a dynamic far-seeing

reformer and  ended it short-sighted and delusional. It

is a Shakespearean story, beautifully and sensitively told by one

of our finest historians.” —Geoffrey C. Ward, author of A

First Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Delano

Roosevelt

From the Hardcover edition.

书籍介绍

The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.

A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would prove central to governance through the early twenty-first century, including the Federal Reserve system and the Clayton Antitrust Act; he guided the nation through World War I; and, although his advocacy in favor of joining the League of Nations proved unsuccessful, he nonetheless established a new way of thinking about international relations that would carry America into the United Nations era. Yet Wilson also steadfastly resisted progress for civil rights, while his attorney general launched an aggressive attack on civil liberties.

Even as he reminds us of the foundational scope of Wilson’s domestic policy achievements, John Milton Cooper, Jr., reshapes our understanding of the man himself: his Wilson is warm and gracious—not at all the dour puritan of popular imagination. As the president of Princeton, his encounters with the often rancorous battles of academe prepared him for state and national politics. Just two years after he was elected governor of New Jersey, Wilson, now a leader in the progressive movement, won the Democratic presidential nomination and went on to defeat Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in one of the twentieth century’s most memorable presidential elections. Ever the professor, Wilson relied on the strength of his intellectual convictions and the power of reason to win over the American people.

John Milton Cooper, Jr., gives us a vigorous, lasting record of Wilson’s life and achievements. This is a long overdue, revelatory portrait of one of our most important presidents—particularly resonant now, as another president seeks to change the way government relates to the people and regulates the economy.