Wilson
by A. Scott Berg
Buy on AmazonThis biography of the 28th President of the United States from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lindbergh includes details from recently-discovered papers that highlight the character of the scholar-leader who shepherded his country through the first World War. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)
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"It might sound counterintuitive, but there’s at least one way that politics is like art: There are never, ever, any easy answers, no matter how much we wish there were. President Woodrow Wilson was a contradiction of a human being, and historians still fight over his legacy, which has always been somewhat confusing — was he a pacifist or a warmonger, a racist or an early civil rights pioneer? A. Scott Berg, to his immense credit, avoids any simplistic conclusions in his thoughtful, absorbing biography of America’s 28th president. Wilson is a doorstop of a book, but it’s also one of the most fast-paced, readable political biographies of recent times — and it’s essential reading for anyone interested in 20th century American history."
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