The President and His Biographer: Woodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker
- ISBN-10
- 0813926548
- ISBN-13
- 9780813926544
- Category
- Biographers
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Author
- Merrill D. Peterson
Description
"In The President and His Biographer: Woodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker, the renowned historian Merrill D. Peterson looks not just at Wilson's life and career, but also at the way Wilson was represented by Baker and other biographers, as well as by the media. Rather than addressing the voluminous Wilson historiography, Peterson bases his biographical study on primary sources - in particular the sixty-nine volumes of his Papers, edited by Arthur Link, and those compiled by Baker - providing a vivid and detailed narrative of our nation's twenty-eighth president."--BOOK JACKET.
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