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Samuelson • Paco Underhill • Daniel Akst In America more than any other nation, it’s the consumer’s passion for getting and spending that animates the spirit and drives the economy. Can the passion last? 48 DARWIN’S WORMS By Amy Stewart Why it took a great mind to comprehend the surprising mysteries of the humble earthworm. 59 THE HIDDEN AGONY OF WOODROW WILSON By Kenneth S. Lynn It’s well known that Woodrow Wilson suffered an incapacitating stroke late in his presidency. But Wilson also endured—and concealed from the public—a lifetime of cerebrovascular ailments that may have affected his behavior and judgment throughout his political career. departments 2 EDITOR’S COMMENT 119 CURRENT BOOKS David J. Garrow 3 CORRESPONDENCE on Communists in America 9 FINDINGS Judith Farr American Expansionism on Nathaniel Hawthorne Fadspeak Warhol the Stalker Reviews by Alexander Chee, Andrew Reynolds, Angela Starita, James 93 THE PERIODICAL OBSERVER Gibney, Margaret Webb Pressler, Imagining the Iraqi Future David Macaulay, Harry McPherson, The Depression’s Bright Side Andrew J. Bacevich, and others cover: Detail from Aphrodite Goes to the Mall (1997), by Andrée Tracey, www.andreetracey.com. Design by David Herbick. The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. USPS 346-670 | Volume XXVIII, Number 1 | Printed in the U.S.A. Editor’s Comment f all the modern presidents, Woodrow Wilson left perhaps the most contradictory legacy. Long an inspiration to America’s lib- Oeral internationalists, he has lately become something of a touchstone for “unilateralist” conservatives who seek to spread democracy around the world. Though he was America’s only scholar-president—a for- mer professor and university president—Wilson has often suffered at the hands of his fellow scholars, especially in recent years. In her magnificent account of the Versailles Peace Conference, Paris 1919, for example, histo- rian Margaret MacMillan gives Wilson his due but also depicts him as inflexible, aloof, and frequently ill informed. He is said to combine “vast self-righteousness with huge ambition.” Others have faulted him for inject- ing the combustible notion of national self-determination into global poli- tics without quite understanding the consequences of what he was doing. In this issue, we are privileged to present an extended essay by the late Ken- neth S. Lynn that adds a new dimension to the evolving portrait of the 28th president. Professor Lynn, the author of 13 books, including penetrating biogra- phies of Ernest Hemingway and Charlie Chaplin, and countless articles and essays, was one of his generation’s leading historians and biographers. The essay on Wilson is drawn from a book Lynn left incomplete at the time of his death last year and was brought to us by his one-time student, Wilfred M. McClay, a former Wilson Center fellow. With keen moral and psychological insight, Lynn focuses on how Wilson’s lifelong physical ailments affected his character and behavior. We are shown a man who must be faulted for concealing his infirmities from the public and yet admired for striving so hard to overcome them. Lynn’s Wilson is a classically tragic figure, a man whose deep religiosity and devotion to high ideals and abstractions cost him much that he held dear, a man who was undone even more by his virtues than by his vices. Editor: Steven Lagerfeld The Wilson Quarterly (ISSN-0363-3276) is published in Managing Editor: James H. Carman January (Winter), April (Spring), July (Summer), and October Senior Editors: Robert K. Landers, (Autumn) by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for James M. Morris Scholars at One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Literary Editor: Stephen Bates Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004–3027. Complete arti- Editors at Large: Ann Hulbert, Jay Tolson cle index available online at www.wilsonquarterly.com. Subscrip- Copy Editor: Vincent Ercolano tions: one year, $24; two years, $43. Air mail outside U.S.: one Contributing Editors: Martha Bayles, year, $39; two years, $73. Single copies mailed upon request: $7; Linda Colley, Denis Donoghue, Max Holland, outside U.S. and possessions, $8; selected back issues: $7, Stephen Miller, Walter Reich, Alan Ryan, including postage and handling; outside U.S., $8. 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Some letters are received in response to the editors’ requests for comment. Because American constitutional authority Considering International Law derives from within our national democratic In the wake of Robert Kagan’s seminal essay process, the American approach is inherently Of Paradise and Power, defenses of American uni- more “democratic.” Our constitution remains lateralism are in vogue these days. Jed Ruben- answerable to the courts, the political process, feld has supplied a novel one in his essay “The and, ultimately, the people—not to the “world Two World Orders” [WQ, Autumn ’03]. government” of the United Nations. Rubenfeld Like Kagan, Rubenfeld believes that Amer- would have us believe that our constitutional ica and Europe are Mars and Venus—not make-up and democratic nature, not our friends going through a rough patch but oppo- power, propel us into unilateral action. sites with fundamentally different “constitu- Rubenfeld’s proposition that the European tions,” in all senses of the word. But Kagan and American approaches toward constitu- and Rubenfeld part company over what they see tional democracy are not only different, but as the source of the difference. Kagan attributes irreconcilably so, is dubious at best.
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