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Lindbergh by a scott berg6/19/2023 ![]() "Tommy" Woodrow Wilson was born in 1856correct to a Scots-Irish Presbyterian family. He does not add much that we did not already know, but it's a classic American story. ![]() Scott Berg, the distinguished biographer of Lindbergh, Samuel Goldwyn and Maxwell Perkins, deals briskly with Wilson's pre-political career and the preamble to the Paris peace conference, well-travelled ground. "No such an evangel of peace," enthused Herbert Hoover, "had appeared since Christ preached the Sermon on the Mount." But Wilson's presidency became first a disaster, and ultimately a bizarre personal tragedy whose horror has never, until now, been fully reported. The unprecedented adulation of Wilson makes uncomfortable reading. JM Keynes, who eviscerated Wilson with his Economic Consequences of the Peace, remarked that "he enjoyed a prestige and moral influence throughout the world unequalled in history". ![]() At the opening of the Paris peace conference in 1919, even Wilson's most severe critics conceded his mastery of the world stage. ![]()
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