Hard Cover
2009 · New York
by Cooper, John Milton Jr
New York: Knopf, 2009. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 6x1x9. Edge wear, smudge to page base. 2009 Hard Cover. A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative presidentâhe helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR's New Deal and would prove central to governance through the early twenty-first century, including the Federal Reserve system and the Clayton Antitrust Act; he guided the nation through World War I; and, although his advocacy in favor of joining the League of Nations proved unsuccessful, he nonetheless established a new way of thinking about international relations that would carry America into the United Nations era. Yet Wilson also steadfastly resisted progress for civil rights, while his attorney general launched an aggressive attack on civil liberties. (Inventory #: 2318621)