Wilson

  • Author: A. Scott Berg
  • Narrator: Jeremy Bobb
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 32:29:43
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Synopsis

In the tradition of Truman, John Adams, and Team of Rivals, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning biographer of Charles Lindbergh, Maxwell Perkins, and Samuel Goldwyn sheds new light on a president and his presidency in a way that redefines our understanding of a tide-turning historical moment.

One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson—the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the twenty-eighth President.

In addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents in the Wilson Archives, Berg was the first biographer to gain access to two recently discovered caches of papers belonging to those close to Wilson. From this material, Berg was able to add countless details—even several unknown events—that fill in missing pieces of Wilson’s character and cast new light on his entire life.

From the scholar-President who ushered the country through its first great world war to the man of intense passion and turbulence, from the idealist determined to make the world “safe for democracy” to the stroke-crippled leader whose incapacity and the subterfuges around it were among the century’s greatest secrets, the result is an intimate portrait written with a particularly contemporary point of view—a book at once magisterial and deeply emotional about the whole of Wilson’s life, accomplishments, and failings. This is not just Wilson the icon—but Wilson the man.

Chapters

  • Wilson 41 Chapter9f

    Duration: 14min
  • Wilson 42 Chapter10

    Duration: 19min
  • Wilson 43 Chapter10a

    Duration: 25min
  • Wilson 44 Chapter10b

    Duration: 21min
  • Wilson 45 Chapter10c

    Duration: 17min
  • Wilson 46 Chapter10d

    Duration: 12min
  • Wilson 47 Chapter10e

    Duration: 25min
  • Wilson 48 Chapter10f

    Duration: 16min
  • Wilson 49 Chapter11

    Duration: 13min
  • Wilson 50 Chapter11a

    Duration: 18min
  • Wilson 51 Chapter11b

    Duration: 24min
  • Wilson 52 Chapter11c

    Duration: 19min
  • Wilson 53 Chapter11d

    Duration: 25min
  • Wilson 54 Chapter11e

    Duration: 18min
  • Wilson 55 Chapter12

    Duration: 11min
  • Wilson 56 Chapter12a

    Duration: 23min
  • Wilson 57 Chapter12b

    Duration: 27min
  • Wilson 58 Chapter12c

    Duration: 26min
  • Wilson 59 Chapter12d

    Duration: 27min
  • Wilson 60 Chapter12e

    Duration: 30min
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