Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Knock Thomas J.
Title : To end all wars Woodrow Wilson and the quest for a New World Order
Year : 1992

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Preface to the New Edition. Woodrow Wilson is neither fondly remembered nor well understood by most Americans in the twenty-first century; even so, he occupies a secure position within the pantheon of great presidents. The domestic legislation he signed into law and the new directions he charted in foreign policy during the First World War shaped the politics and diplomacy of the United States throughout the twentieth century and beyond. Among all presidents only Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson have matched Wilson’s record in enacting a significant legislative program. Much of Wilson’s program, like FDR’s and LBJ’s, is still with us today. It includes the creation of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Trade Commission, tariff reform that reduced rates by 40 percent, and the first federal laws to restrict child labor and to establish the eight-hour day (for the nation’s 400,000 railroad workers). But Wilson carved out his most monumental legacy in the realm of international politics. No chief executive has ever set in motion a more original idea for reducing the risk of war than the twenty-eighth president did through the Covenant of the League of Nations. ...