Books by Woodrow Wilson
“People like to call Barack Obama and Bill Clinton ‘intellectual’. They aren’t, in comparison to the likes of Woodrow Wilson. He was a genius. He wrote this book, The State, as a young academic. It’s from a neglected and relatively radical period of his career. In the next decade, he took a much more conservative turn as president of Princeton. The book outlines a much more robust role for the executive branch and also what an activist state would look like.” Read more...
The best books on The Roots of Liberalism
Franklin Foer, Journalist
Interviews where books by Woodrow Wilson were recommended
The best books on The Roots of Liberalism, recommended by Franklin Foer
As part of our series on American progressivism, journalist and author Franklin Foer discusses the genesis of liberalism and how the American Civil War remade politics.
