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Evaluates the parallel worlds of the twenty-eighth president's personal and political arenas, examining his World War I leadership, his failed efforts to bring the United States into the League of Nations, and his contributions toward the creation of the United Nations.

Thomas Jefferson and St. George Tucker : the makings of revolutionary slaveholders / Annette Gordon-Reed -- Domesticating the captive nation : Thomas Jefferson and the problem of slavery / Peter S. Onuf -- Perfecting slavery : rational plantation management at Monticello / Lucia Cinder Stanton -- Personal encounters : Abraham Lincoln and African Americans / Jean Baker -- Lincoln and colonization / Eric Foner -- The theft of Lincoln in scholarship, politics, and public memory / David W. Blight -- American sphinx : Woodrow Wilson and race / John Milton Cooper Jr. -- W.E.B. Du Bois, Woodrow Wilson, and the dilemma of democracy and race in the Progressive Era / Manning Marable -- "People of many races" : the world beyond Europe in the Wilsonian imagination / Erez Manela

A set of reviews of Luke A. Nichter's The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War, with a response from the author.

A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government. A century later, a new generation of conservatives criticizes Progressivism as having abandoned America's founding values and miring the government in institutional gridlock. In this paradigm-shifting book, renowned contributors examine a broad range of issues, including Progressives' interpretation of the Constitution, their expansion and redistribution of individual rights, and reforms meant to shift power from political parties to ordinary citizens