A Review of Woodrow Wilson's Biography: Facing War 1915-17

This is the third in a series of reviews of Ray Stannard Baker's "Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters." Of the eight-volume biography of the former President of the United States, we have now read and reviewed three volumes:

• President (1913-14)
• Neutrality (1914-15)
• And now, Facing War - 1915-17

Here is a short excerpt from one overseas review a year after it was released:

“Mr. Baker is careful to show, he [Woodrow Wilson] was never a pacifist in the full sense of the term, and his ultimate entry into war was no inconsistency of principle.

​"War was to him [Woodrow Wilson] a dire last resort to be avoided at almost any cost, and the tragic interest of this volume lies in the gradual closing round him of the facts and forces which made the keeping out [of World War I] impossible.

​​“Books of the Day,” J. A. Hobson, The Manchester Guardian, August 26, 1938

Read a Review of Woodrow Wilson: VOlume VI - Facing War (1915-17)