Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of ‘common hatred”.

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met...

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: “It won’t work. You can’t cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary’s clerk.