The Woodrow Wilson Story (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Catherine Owens Peare
- First Published: 1963
- Time of Work: 1856–1924
- Setting: Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and France
- Principal Characters: Woodrow Wilson, Joseph Wilson, Janet (Jessie) Wilson, Ellen Axson Wilson, Colonel Edward Mandell House, William Gibbs McAdoo, William Jennings Bryan, Edith Galt Wilson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Social reform, Politics, Education or educators, Marriage, World War I, Idealism, Nobel Prizes, Presidents, Biography, League of Nations
- Locales: Virginia, France, Connecticut, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey
Form and Content
In The Woodrow Wilson Story: An Idealist in Politics, Catherine Owens Peare describes the early life of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, tracing step-by-step the influences that created in him the ideals for which he became famous. The book also presents a vivid personal view of the political and historical developments of the time in which he lived. Of particular interest is Wilson’s impression of war, which grew out of his childhood memories of the Civil War and extended to his pacifist views at the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
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