The Hazards of Zeal

Wilson’s personality and Presidency have always been and still are a delicate subject. Inevitably, any critical biography of an American President, whether the author so intends or not, is considered an exposé of his secret weaknesses. This effect is greatly heightened when, as here, the subject is a great and “martyred” President, and one of the biographers, a great but still controversial psychiatrist. This book, then, is Because of the criticisms already leveled against it on the grounds that it impugns Wilson’s greatness by demeaning him as mentally deranged,

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