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{ tf1ansiansicpg1252deff0{fonttbl{f0fswissfprq2fcharset0 Arial;}} viewkind4uc1pardlang1033f0fs20 One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg has completed i Wilsoni0 - the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President. par In addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents in the Wilson Archives, Berg was the first biographer to gain access to two recently-discovered caches of papers belonging to those close to Wilson. From this material, Berg was able to add countless details - even several unknown events - that fill in missing pieces of Wilson's character and cast new light on his entire life. par From the scholar-President who ushered the country through its first great world war to the man of intense passion and turbulence, from the idealist determined to make the world 'safe for democracy', to the stroke-crippled leader whose incapacity, and the subterfuges around it, were among the century's greatest secrets, the result is an intimate portrait written with a particularly contemporary point of view - a book at once magisterial and deeply emotional about the whole of Wilson's life, accomplishments and failings. This is not just Wilson the icon - but Wilson the man. par }

About The Author

A. Scott Berg is the author of four bestselling biographies: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, winner of the National Book Award; Goldwyn; Lindbergh, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and Kate Remembered. He lives in Los Angeles.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (September 10, 2013)
  • Length: 832 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781471130557

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'An astonishing tale, narrated with moving efficiency and precision'

– Observer

'Mr. Berg is a terrific researcher, and Wilson exhumes hundreds of fresh quotes and details . . . A very good work of history'

– Wall Street Journal

'Berg tells the story of Wilson, the man, very well indeed . . . he has a novelist's eye for the striking detail, and a vivid prose style'

– New York Times Book Review

'With the prescience that all truly great biographers possess, Berg discovered in Woodrow Wilson a figure who would understand Washington’s current state of affairs’

– Vanity Fair

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