Pulitzer Prize Biography Winner

Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet

by Arthur Walworth

Summary

Arthur Walworth examines the life of Woodrow Wilson, the scholar who rose from Princeton to the New Jersey governorship and then the White House. The first volume of his study traces Wilson's intellectual formation and his domestic reforms before the strains of the First World War. It matters for portraying Wilson as a moral leader whose ideals about democracy and peace shaped a turbulent era.

Historical Context & Significance

The award honored the opening volume of Walworth's two part biography of the twenty eighth president.