Woodrow Wilson (1924) by William Allen White is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that captures the complex legacy of America’s 28th president during a transformative era. Published just five years after Wilson left office, White’s account blends political analysis with personal insight, drawing on his access to Wilson’s inner circle and his own perspective as a prominent Progressive journalist.
The book traces Wilson’s rise from Princeton professor to wartime leader, highlighting his idealistic Fourteen Points, his doomed fight for the League of Nations, and his tragic physical collapse in 1919. White doesn’t shy from contradictions—Wilson’s moral rigidity versus his political pragmatism, his global vision alongside his segregationist domestic policies.
For similar period biographies, try The Wilson Era (1946) by Josephus Daniels or Edith and Woodrow (1981) on Wilson’s secretive second marriage.
