Woodrow Wilson

” Cox presents an Everest of evidence that Wilson’s progressivism smoothly melded with his authoritarianism… . A stunning chronicle.” – George F. Will * The Washington Post *
“Christopher Cox has written a powerful reappraisal of the 28th U.S. president that reaches devastating conclusions.” * The Christian Science Monitor *
“A dispassionate new biography… . A doggedly researched and soberly told story of American progress—and the president who stood in its way… . Wilson’s presidency is a reminder of Congress’s essential role as a change-maker.” * The Economist *
“A Pulitzer Prize-worthy new history about former President Woodrow Wilson.” * The Washington Examiner *
“Woodrow Wilson was a man of contradictions. Christopher Cox lays them bare in this unflinching biography. An essential read for anyone who wants to know if we should honor Wilson or shun him—or simply wants to understand him better.” – Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
”[A] deeply researched, important new biography… Richly detailed and provides an array of shocking examples that might be new to armchair historians.” * Washington Monthly *
”[An] assiduously researched biography… . The chapters chronicling the Silent Sentinels are difficult to read without sadness.” – Barton Swaim * The Wall Street Journal *
“Of all Wilson biographies, this is the first to supply the cultural and historical backdrop necessary to fully understand the 28th president. We discover an age populated by many more enlightened figures than we imagined, and a president who too often fell far short of their ideals. With unsurpassed knowledge of American legislative procedure, Cox illuminates a mystery—why Wilson failed to win Congress’s support for the Versailles Treaty—while his thorough research brilliantly captures the unexpected greatness of Wilson’s foes in the fight for women’s suffrage. In sum, a tour de force that assembles all the missing pieces in the Wilson story to complete the biography of a man America twice elected president but is only just coming to understand.” – Amity Shlaes, New York Times bestselling author of Coolidge and The Forgotten Man
“A persuasive counterweight to laudatory Woodrow Wilson biographies of the past. Highly readable, compendious, eloquent.” – W. Barksdale Maynard, award-winning author of Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency
“Cox’s wonderful new book explores the deep connections between Wilson’s long resistance to women’s voting rights and his enduring opposition to political and social equality for Black people. In the process he illuminates not only the life of the 28th president, but an amazing cast of characters who were Wilson’s contemporaries. It all makes for brilliant, eye-opening, page-turning history.” – Walter Stahr, New York Times bestselling author of Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival and Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man

Christopher Cox is a Senior Scholar in Residence at the University of California, Irvine, a Life Trustee of the University of Southern California, Chair of the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee for Southern California and the Pacific, and a member of several nonprofit and for-profit boards. Between two decades as a practicing lawyer, he served as chair of the Homeland Security Committee in the US House of Representatives, chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and senior associate counsel to the President. He has written for Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, The Detroit News, The Denver Post, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other publications.

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