 | Constitutional Government in the United States (Library of Liberal Thought) by Woodrow Wilson
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $20.51 Woodrow, no PR slouch (and big on self-congratulation), would recommend his own book. He defined the modern Constitutional Presidency, and a century later it still holds up.
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 | To the Farewell Address by Felix Gilbert
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $0.76 A work of pre-Keynes Keynesianism with a couple Frenchies and Founding Fathers thrown in. Like Tocqueville, Gilbert got this country right and said it best, decades before anyone else did.
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 | Over Here: The First World War and American Society by David M. Kennedy
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.40 The single best history of wartime America by my favorite living American historian. DMK rocks.
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 | The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.27 McNamara opens by talking about childhood memories of WWI V-Day, which makes him like 1,000 yrs old. While McM misconstrues Wilsonianism, this is a terrific film, war history.
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 | The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt by John Milton Cooper Jr.
Buy new: $21.15 / Used from: $2.42 Woodrow may not have liked this one (he and TR had issues), but it's a great comparative study. TR inevitably steals scenes, but JMC (check out Breaking the Heart of the World) does both men justice.
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 | The Portable Edmund Burke (The Viking Portable Library) by Edmund Burke
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.35 Wilson, American Democrat, was a big fan of Burke (THE English Conservative), and you should be too. Burke's understanding of history is genius, and he's eloquent as hell.
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 | The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it by Richard Hofstadter
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.12 The chapter on Wilson, "The Conservative as Liberal," is reeeally good, and makes for a good starting point.
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 | The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $8.94 "Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born" (Easter, 1916). I love Kipling, but Yeats remains my favorite WWI poet.
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 | The World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh, and the Problems of Peace, 1812-22 by Henry A. Kissinger
Buy used from: $87.75 Woodrow would have read this as a cautionary tale against the balance of power. I say it's not, but I've got 85 years on the guy. Kissinger's writing is particularly delphic in this, his dissertation.
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 | Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $6.19 Straightforward, awesomely comprehensive and entertaining to boot. MacMillan's descriptions of Clemenceau are especially funny.
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