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WILSON
One hundred years after his inauguration as President of the United States, 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, Scott Berg has completed WILSON, the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President.
In addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents that have long comprised the Wilson Archives—letters, diaries, speeches, memoranda, and the correspondence and personal journals of those closest to Wilson—Berg was able to take advantage of two major caches of papers that have only recently been discovered: significant collections of personal letters, to which he is the first biographer allowed access. These “lost” documents belonged to the family of Dr. Cary T. Grayson, President Wilson’s physician and most trusted friend; and Jessie Wilson Sayre, the second of Wilson’s three daughters. 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.
The result is an intimate portrait of a President, written with a particularly contemporary point of view, as Wilson’s life (1856-1924) allows us to reflect upon the state of today’s politics and political figures. Long perceived as a cold and aloof intellectual, Wilson proved to be a man of intense passion, emotional turbulence, and political skill—much of which is revealed for the first time.
This is not only a magisterial biography, filled with new insight and detail, but a deeply emotional exploration of the whole of Wilson’s life, accomplishments, and profoundly human failings. This is not just Wilson the icon, but Wilson the man. A. Scott Berg is the author of four bestselling biographies: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978) received the National Book Award and will be a new movie starring Michael Fassbender and Colin Firth; with a Guggenheim Fellowship, he published Goldwyn: A Biography in 1989; Lindbergh (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award) was published in 1998; and his biographical memoir of Katharine Hepburn, Kate Remembered, was the #1 bestseller for most of the summer of 2003.
The result is an intimate portrait of a President, written with a particularly contemporary point of view, as Wilson’s life (1856-1924) allows us to reflect upon the state of today’s politics and political figures. Long perceived as a cold and aloof intellectual, Wilson proved to be a man of intense passion, emotional turbulence, and political skill—much of which is revealed for the first time.
This is not only a magisterial biography, filled with new insight and detail, but a deeply emotional exploration of the whole of Wilson’s life, accomplishments, and profoundly human failings. This is not just Wilson the icon, but Wilson the man. A. Scott Berg is the author of four bestselling biographies: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978) received the National Book Award and will be a new movie starring Michael Fassbender and Colin Firth; with a Guggenheim Fellowship, he published Goldwyn: A Biography in 1989; Lindbergh (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award) was published in 1998; and his biographical memoir of Katharine Hepburn, Kate Remembered, was the #1 bestseller for most of the summer of 2003.
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