Cox, a former Republican member of Congress, has written a thoroughly researched, fast-paced, and sharply critical biography of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The Wilson revealed here is poles apart ...

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...

In “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn,” former U.S. Rep. Christopher Cox examines how the president undermined rights for women and Black people.

Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States of America (1913—21). A scholar and statesman, best remembered for his legislative accomplishments and his high-minded idealism, who led his ...

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, by Christopher Cox (Simon & Schuster, 640 pp., $30.99) In Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, Christopher Cox describes uber-progressive Woodrow Wilson as ...

At last, Woodrow Wilson’s reputation gets the dismantling it richly deserves A new biography destroys the 28th president’s place in the progressive pantheon.

Presidential legacies change over time. For decades, Woodrow Wilson, America’s president from 1913-21 who died 100 years ago, enjoyed a reputation as an enlightened internationalist.

‘Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn’ By Christopher Cox Simon & Schuster, 640 pages ‘The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass ...

Woodrow Wilson ’s reputation has taken a beating lately. In 2020 Princeton University, of which he had once been president, removed his name from its school of public affairs, citing his ...

Maybe not so surprising after all. Woodrow Wilson — idealist, author of the Fourteen Points, hero of the European masses after World War I — was all that, and more. Or, really, less.

While Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, which will be published on Nov. 5, is in some ways a biography, it is less a whole-of-life account than it is a history of Wilson’s racism and even ...