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Comments on activities as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, the political scene in Washington, D.C., his father-in-law President Wilson, his private law practice, and his political career as candidate for U.S. President and as U.S. Senator from California.
This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
The role of Ellen A. Wilson in shaping or making Woodrow Wilson president has never been examined. Perhaps it has just been overlooked, as Ellen herself has been. "She was a quiet, gentle, unassuming woman who avoided the limelight so successfully that she has been almost forgotten," wrote her daughter Eleanor in 1962. As Woodrow Wilson lay dying in early 1924, he turned to Eleanor and said, "I owe everything to your mother". This biography, in addition to being about Ellen, the first lady or the woman "who made Wilson president", also reveals Ellen the woman, the artist, the mother, the wife and lover of Woodrow Wilson. Thus, we learn about their domestic life, their married highs as well as lows and about their mindset and values. This new and important book personifies the overall character of Ellen Wilson and etches her historical figure into the mind of the reader as a person who had a significant influence on the course of the United States' history.
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Includes: Letters, 1914 March 28-1918 October 25, Washington, Margaret Woodrow Wilson to Percy MacKaye; Letter, 1913 Sept. 16, Cornish, N.H., Ellen L. Axson Wilson to Percy MacKaye; Letters, 1914 January 13 and 1920 March 19, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo to Percy and Marion MacKaye; Letters, 1919 November 21-1920 November 19, to and from Edith Bolling Wilson.
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Incorporates new material contained in letters recently made available to the author.