{"product_id":"books-the-moralist-by-patricia-o-toole","title":"The Moralist","description":"\u003cb\u003eLucid and elegant...On Wilson's tortured entrance into World War I,  O'Toole] is truly superb...As a study of Wilson's relationship with Europe, and the intrigues of his foreign policy administration, the book is exemplary.--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eO'Toole does full justice to Wilson's complexities, but it is with the coming of the war that her narrative takes on something close to Shakespearean dimensions...scrupulously balanced...elegantly crafted.--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eEnlightening...O'Toole has done students of American history a great service.--\u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). \u003ci\u003eThe Moralist\u003c\/i\u003e is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American overreach in foreign affairs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn domestic affairs, Wilson was a progressive who enjoyed unprecedented success in leveling the economic playing field, but he was behind the times on racial equality and women's suffrage. As a Southern boy during the Civil War, he knew the ravages of war, and as president he refused to lead the country into World War I until he was convinced that Germany posed a direct threat to the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce committed, he was an admirable commander-in-chief, yet he also presided over the harshest suppression of political dissent in American history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the war Wilson became the world's most ardent champion of liberal internationalism--a democratic new world order committed to peace, collective security, and free trade. With Wilson's leadership, the governments at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 founded the League of Nations, a federation of the world's democracies. The creation of the League, Wilson's last great triumph, was quickly followed by two crushing blows: a paralyzing stroke and the rejection of the treaty that would have allowed the United States to join the League. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a backlash against internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, Wilson's liberal internationalism was revived by Franklin D. Roosevelt and it has shaped American foreign relations--for better and worse--ever since.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670464160017,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780743298100.jpg?v=1781511217","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-moralist-by-patricia-o-toole","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}