Woodrow Wilson
Earlier this month Congressman Bob Goodlatte introduced legislation to create a Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library. Here is a link to the legislation. Obviously I think that Virginia's last president needs a fully fledged Presidential Library. There is currently an entity called the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library; I suppose that this is associated with the birthplace in Staunton, and is not a full-blown Presidential library in the Johnson-Nixon-Reagan sense of the term.
Wilson is an interesting and critical character in twentieth century Americal History; he led the country into the Great War over the objections of a lot of Americans and ushered in the "American Century." He is prominently mentioned in two of the books I mentioned in my last post. In "The Great Influenza," Barry says that ""America had never been and would never be so informed by the will of its chief executive, not during the Civil War with its suspension of habeas corpus, not during Korea and the McCarthy period, not even during World Wat II. He would turn the nation into a weapon, an explosive device."
In Gore Vidal's "Smithsonian Institution," the time-travelling protagonist wants to stop World War II in 1939. With the assistance of Grover Cleaveland, he travels back to a Sunday morning in 1911 and talks Wilson out of entering the New Jersey Governors' race. World War I, and the European components of WWII, are instantly wiped from history.
Maybe the fate of the century was in the hands of a Virginian.
Wilson is an interesting and critical character in twentieth century Americal History; he led the country into the Great War over the objections of a lot of Americans and ushered in the "American Century." He is prominently mentioned in two of the books I mentioned in my last post. In "The Great Influenza," Barry says that ""America had never been and would never be so informed by the will of its chief executive, not during the Civil War with its suspension of habeas corpus, not during Korea and the McCarthy period, not even during World Wat II. He would turn the nation into a weapon, an explosive device."
In Gore Vidal's "Smithsonian Institution," the time-travelling protagonist wants to stop World War II in 1939. With the assistance of Grover Cleaveland, he travels back to a Sunday morning in 1911 and talks Wilson out of entering the New Jersey Governors' race. World War I, and the European components of WWII, are instantly wiped from history.
Maybe the fate of the century was in the hands of a Virginian.
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