The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson And The World He Made

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Sinopse

Acclaimed author Patricia O’Toole’s “superb” (The New York Times) account of Woodrow Wilson, one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents. A “gripping” (USA TODAY) biography, The Moralist is “an essential contribution to presidential history” (Booklist, starred review).

“In graceful prose and deep scholarship, Patricia O’Toole casts new light on the presidency of Woodrow Wilson” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis). The Moralist shows how Wilson was a progressive who enjoyed unprecedented success in leveling the economic playing field, but he was behind the times on racial equality and women’s suffrage. As a Southern boy during the Civil War, he knew the ravages of war, and as president he refused to lead the country into World War I until he was convinced that Germany posed a direct threat to the United States. Once committed, he was an admirable commander-in-chief, yet he also presided over the harshest suppression of political dissent in American history.

After the war Wilson became the world’s most ardent champion of liberal internationalism—a democratic new world order committed to peace, collective security, and free trade. With Wilson’s leadership, the governments at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 founded the League of Nations, a federation of the world’s democracies. The creation of the League, Wilson’s last great triumph, was quickly followed by two crushing blows: a paralyzing stroke and the rejection of the treaty that would have allowed the United States to join the League. Ultimately, Wilson’s liberal internationalism was revived by Franklin D. Roosevelt and it has shaped American foreign relations—for better and worse—ever since.

A cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American overreach in foreign affairs, The Moralist “does full justice to Wilson’s complexities” (The Wall Street Journal).

Capítulos

  • Moralist 01 Open

    Duração: 13s
  • Moralist 02 Author'sNote

    Duração: 10min
  • Moralist 03 Ch1

    Duração: 35min
  • Moralist 04 Ch2

    Duração: 48min
  • Moralist 05 Ch3

    Duração: 29min
  • Moralist 06 Ch4

    Duração: 33min
  • Moralist 07 Ch5

    Duração: 31min
  • Moralist 08 Ch6

    Duração: 31min
  • Moralist 09 Ch7

    Duração: 24min
  • Moralist 10 Ch8

    Duração: 24min
  • Moralist 11 Ch9

    Duração: 24min
  • Moralist 12 Ch10

    Duração: 26min
  • Moralist 13 Ch11

    Duração: 24min
  • Moralist 14 Ch12

    Duração: 21min
  • Moralist 15 Ch13

    Duração: 25min
  • Moralist 16 Ch14

    Duração: 44min
  • Moralist 17 Ch15

    Duração: 33min
  • Moralist 18 Ch16

    Duração: 23min
  • Moralist 19 Ch17

    Duração: 31min
  • Moralist 20 Ch18

    Duração: 35min
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