He Kept Us Out of War

There is nothing in American political history to match the growth and collapse of the reputation of Woodrow Wilson. Twice elected President by a minority of the votes cast, he enjoyed a three-year apotheosis that ended in 1920 with an emphatic repudiation by the voters, and fell into an obscurity from which not even the devoted labors of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation can rescue him.

Nonetheless, he made an indelible mark on the world and the country and his Administration will always be of major interest to students of American history. They will be grateful to Arthur S. Link in the third volume of his massive biography, Wilson: The Struggle For Neutrality, 1914-1915 (Princeton, $10.00), for giving them this extensively documented account of an important period in which attitudes were formed and decisions taken that were to help greatly in getting us into the war. It is written by an ardent admirer of Wilson who is also the editor of his Papers, and—as is fitting—a professor at Princeton.

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There is nothing in American political history to match the growth and collapse of the reputation of Woodrow Wilson. Twice elected President by a minority of the votes cast, he enjoyed a three-year apotheosis that ended in 1920 with an emphatic repudiation by the voters, and fell into an obscurity from which not even the devoted labors of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation can rescue him.

Nonetheless, he made an indelible mark on the world and the country and his Administration will always be of major interest to students of American history. They will be grateful to Arthur S. Link in the third volume of his massive biography, Wilson: The Struggle For Neutrality, 1914-1915 (Princeton, $10.00), for giving them this extensively documented account of an important period in which attitudes were formed and decisions taken that were to help greatly in getting us into the war. It is written by an ardent admirer of Wilson who is also the editor of his Papers, and—as is fitting—a professor at Princeton.