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When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson

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by Gene Smith
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gene SmithPublish date:2018-02-06Pages:340
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLCISBN-13:9781504049399ISBN-10:150404939XUPC:9781504049399Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Presidents & Heads of State, United States, American GovernmentBook Topic:20th Century, Executive BranchSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCZ1VXNP55
The poignant true story of an American president struck by tragedy at the height of his glory.

This New York Times bestseller vividly chronicles the stunning decline in Woodrow Wilson's fortunes after World War I and draws back the curtain on one of the strangest episodes in the history of the American presidency.

Author Gene Smith brilliantly captures the drama and excitement of Wilson's efforts at the Paris Peace Conference to forge a lasting concord between enemies, and his remarkable coast-to-coast tour to sway national opinion in favor of the League of Nations. During this grueling jaunt across 8,000 miles in less than a month, Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke that left him an invalid and a recluse, shrouding his final years in office in shadow and mystery.

In graceful and dramatic prose, Smith portrays a White House mired in secrets, with a commander in chief kept behind closed doors, unseen by anyone except his doctor and his devoted second wife, Edith Galt Wilson, a woman of strong will with less than an elementary school education who, for all intents and purposes, led the government of the most powerful nation in the world for two years.

When the Cheering Stopped is a gripping true story of duty, courage, and deceit, and an unforgettable portrait of a visionary leader whose valiant struggle and tragic fall changed the course of world history.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLCISBN-13:9781504049399ISBN-10:150404939XUPC:9781504049399Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Presidents & Heads of State, United States, American GovernmentBook Topic:20th Century, Executive BranchSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCZ1VXNP55
Gene Smith (1929-2012) was an acclaimed historian and biographer and the author of When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson (1964), a poignant portrait of the president's final months in the White House that spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Born in Manhattan and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Smith was drafted into the army and served in Germany in the early 1950s. He began his career at Newsweek and reported for the Newark Star-Ledger and the New York Post before leaving journalism to write full-time. His popular biographies include The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1970), Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography (1984), and American Gothic: The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family--Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth (1992). For many years, Smith and his wife and daughter lived in a house built by a Revolutionary War veteran in Pine Plains, New York, and raised thoroughbred horses.

Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC

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