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Wilson
by Berg, A. Scott
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0399159215
- ISBN 13
- 9780399159213
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Penguin Publishing Group. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. 0399159215 . Biography of Wilson by a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Contains an index and source notes in the rear as well as three photo sections. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no previous owner names and no interior or exterior markings. Dust jacket has a sticker over bar code on rear panel, else clean a jacket with no chips, tears or price clipping. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 818 pages .
Synopsis
“With the prescience that all truly great biographers possess, Berg discovered in Woodrow Wilson a figure who would understand Washington’s current state of affairs.”— Vanity Fair From Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times–bestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitive—and revelatory—biography of one of the great American figures of modern times. 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 28th 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21388
- Title
- Wilson
- Author
- Berg, A. Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399159215
- ISBN 13
- 9780399159213
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- 0399159215, Presidents, Woodrow Wilson, Biography
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