"Much more than biography and much less than hagiography, this book
has much to say about Progressive Era public policy formation,
corporate liberalism, industrial democracy, economic nationalism,
and political isolationism."--American Historical Review"Clements
has written a remarkably well balanced and perceptive history of an
administration that has had both staunch defenders and harsh
critics."--Journal of Southern History"Clements's understanding of
Wilson and his presidency, along with the lengthy critical
bibliography, make this book a superb introduction to the Wilson
Administration."--Reviews in American History
"This is simply a superb book, one based on a mastery of the
secondary works and wide reading in the primary sources. The
chapters on the Department of Agriculture and the Department of
Labor are significant contributions to our knowledge of the Wilson
presidency, and the author's admiration of Woodrow Wilson does not
get in the way of his critical appraisal of the man and his career
in the presidency."--Arthur S. Link, Editor and Director, The
Papers of Woodrow Wilson"This is the best one-volume history of the
full Wilson presidency."--John Whiteclay Chambers II, author of The
Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920"I know
of no better examination of what a presidential administration
actually did-desired, planned, accomplished, failed to do, and
unintentionally caused or influenced. This is the best single book
on the Wilson administration and one of a handful of best books on
any presidency."--John Milton Cooper, Jr., author of Pivotal
Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 and The Warrior and the
Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt"Clements probes
beneath Wilson's popular, post-Versailles image to show us the
greatest legislative leader of the twentieth century."--Richard
Norton Smith, Director, Herbert Hoover Library
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