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The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt

The colossal figures who shaped the politics of industrial America emerge in full scale in this comparative biography. In the depth and sophistication of intellect that they brought to politics and in the titanic conflict they waged, Roosevelt and Wilson were, like Hamilton and Jefferson before them, the political architects for an entire century.

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adult
Length
long · 480 pages

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