A. Scott Berg Discusses Woodrow Wilson
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, A. Scott Berg, previously authored four biographies, every one a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller. His subjects have been iconic American figures: legendary editor Maxwell Perkins, filmmaker Samuel Goldwyn, aviator Charles Lindbergh, and actress Katharine Hepburn. Each portrait has been characterized by three essential qualities: the sweeping away of myth and legend to unveil a living, breathing human being, meticulous scholarship aided by a remarkable ability to gain access to previously unavailable sources, and an elegant, fluent prose that propels the reader onward. All of these attributes are amply present in Berg’s new book, his first in more than ten years, a biography of the enormously important and influential, but enigmatic and often mischaracterized, twenty-eighth President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson.
A century after Wilson’s inauguration as President, Berg is the first biographer allowed access to the vast Wilson Archives. Recently discovered documents include the letters of Dr. Cary Grayson, President Wilson’s personal physician and most trusted friend, and Jessie Wilson Sayre, the second of Wilson’s three daughters. Aided by this material, Berg was able to glean considerable new detail, uncover several unknown events, and cast fresh light on Wilson’s entire life. The result is an intimate and incisive biography of Wilson, long viewed as a cold and aloof intellectual, but revealed by Berg to be a man of intense passion, emotional turbulence, and hidden political skill.
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