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Title: Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman by Kendrick A. Clements, Kendrick, A. Clements ISBN: 1-56663-267-6 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Slow Paced and a Bit Disjointed
Comment: The writing in this book is good, but in places it jumps around in time. It is also slow paced and not light reading. However, it covers Woodrow's life pretty well for a one-book volume.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mister, we could use a man like Woody again!
Comment: "God helping her...she can do no other!"
Unlike our current prez, Wilson was no war monger. He earnestly sought peace even as he committed our boys to the 20th centuries first horrific war. This is his story and I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't Forget Woodrow Wilson
Comment: Kendrick A. Clements "Woodrow Wilson" delivers what it promises -an excellent introductory study of our 28th president - in just 223 pages of text. Some readers may want more intimate details about Wilson and the people in his life; for them there are 11 additional pages of pertinent bibliographical information. Clement's brief book, nevertheless - billed as the 'best available one-volume biography' on Wilson - provides the reader with that essential information that prompts many historians to rank Wilson in the top tier of U.S. presidents. We learn, for example, that Wilson (our only Ph.D. president) was one of just a handful of our truly intellectual presidents - i.e., he loved books and ideas and was a voracious reader of books and a prolific writer of books. He was the son of a Presbyterian minister who'd instilled in him a love of his fellow man and a desire to serve his fellow man. Wilson - like Theodore Roosevelt before him - came to believe that the federal government is an organ that must be involved in helping those unable to help themselves. As president he pushed through legislation that protected workers, women, and children from abuse and exploitaton in the workplace. He believed in the capitalist system and in the prerequisite free market conditions; consequently, he fought against any practices employed by business or industry designed to create monopolies or restrict free competition. As president he felt obligated to be deeply involved in both legislative and executive branch activities - in order to better realize his domestic and foreign affairs goals. Wilson was a decent man with a wide range of significant accomplishments: after acquiring his Ph.D. (political science) at Johns Hopkins University, he distinguished himself in a number of capacities - as a college/university professor, university president (Princeton), governor (New Jersey) and U.S. president (2 terms). While he was in office women got the vote, the Federal Reserve Bank was established, the mechanism for funding government activities was changed (the graduated income tax was adopted to suplement less effective tariff and excise tax revenues). When U.S. entry into World War I became unavoidable, Wilson vowed that the war should end with something positive - namely, with a non-punitive peace (provided for in his '14 Point Plan' for peace)and with the creation of an organization that could prevent world wars in the future (he proposed the League of Nations). Because U.S. congressional opposition was more powerful Wilson failed to achieve these goals - but he did win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Nevertheless, Wilson was correct in warning the world that a punitive peace would cause serious trouble in the future (aka Adolph Hitler), and he was correct in predicting that the world would eventually be forced to create a collective organization of nations (aka the United Nations) to resolve international disputes and to punish nations who violate international law. We now see that Wilson was also important as the transitional president who helped the United States abandon its 19th Century isolationist positions - and he did his best to push the country into the modern era (20th Century) when it would eventually accept and assume its duties and responsibilities as a leader among nations.
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Title: Woodrow Wilson: Profiles in Power by J.A. Thompson ISBN: 0582247373 Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Life of Andrew Jackson by Robert V. Remini ISBN: 0060937351 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Woodrow Wilson 1913 - 1921: The American Presidents Series by H. W. Brands, Arthur M. Schlesinger ISBN: 0805069550 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Franklin D. Roosevelt : A Rendezvous with Destiny by Frank Freidel ISBN: 0316292613 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: An Honest President : The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland by H. P. Jeffers ISBN: 0380805715 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 22 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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