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  “rated Wilson behind only Lincoln, Washington” “A Comparison of Polls of Presidential Greatness,” Syracuse University, accessed May 24, 2016, http://classes.maxwell.syr.edu/hst341/presgreatness.htm.

  “ ‘Today’s concerns shape our views of the past’ ” Kenneth T. Walsh, “Historians Rank George W. Bush Among Worst Presidents,” U.S. News and World Report, February 7, 2009, http://www.usnews.com/news/history/articles/2009/02/17/historians-rank-george-w-bush-among-worst-presidents.

  “ ‘Woodrow Wilson was one of America’s greatest Presidents’ ” “Woodrow Wilson: Life in Brief,” Miller Center, accessed May 24, 2016, http://millercenter.org/president/biography/wilson-life-in-brief.

  “one of America’s greatest presidents” “American Experience: Woodrow Wilson,” PBS, accessed May 24, 2016, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/index.html.

  “even likened him to Jesus Christ” “David Lloyd George,” New World Encyclopedia, accessed May 24, 2016, http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/David_Lloyd_George.

  “ ‘than an institution devoted to the highest ideals’ ” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Statement by President Upon Signing Bill to Establish a National Memorial to Woodrow Wilson, October 25, 1968,” in Lyndon B. Johnson: 1968–1969 (in two books) containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president [book 2] (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Library, 2005), p. 1070, accessed May 24, 2016, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/ppotpus/4731573.1968.002/376?rgn=full+text;view=image.

  “ ‘but He Deserves Our Understanding’ ” Richard Cohen, “Woodrow Wilson Was Racist, but He Deserves Our Understanding,” Washington Post, November 23, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/taking-woodrow-wilson-out-of-context/2015/11/23/5eb509ee-920c-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html.

  “he grew up mostly in Georgia and South Carolina” “Biography,” The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, accessed May 24, 2016, http://www.woodrowwilson.org/about/biography.

  “Confederates like the Wilsons” “Woodrow Wilson: Life Before the Presidency.” Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, accessed June 8, 2016, http://millercenter.org/president/biography/wilson-life-before-the-presidency.

  “through the streets in chains” Josephus Daniels, The Life of Woodrow Wilson, (Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1924), p. 37.

  “Wilson did not learn to read or write until he was nearly ten” “American Experience: Woodrow Wilson,” PBS, accessed May 24, 2016, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/index.html.

  “he received his doctorate in political science and history” “Biography,” The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, accessed May 24, 2016, http://www.woodrowwilson.org/about/biography.

  “ ‘Woodrow Wilson, United States Senator’ ” E.S., “The President,” The Atlantic Monthly, March 1913, p. 289, accessed May 24, 2016, http://www.unz.org/Pub/AtlanticMonthly-1913mar-00289?View=PDF. Josephus Daniels, The Life of Woodrow Wilson (Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1924), p. 38.

  “early progressive economist Richard Ely” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change (New York: Doubleday, 2007), p. 95.

  “ ‘critical to society’s evolution’ ” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 84. Note: Goldberg also reminds us of Wilson’s admiration for Lincoln, which may seem odd, considering Wilson’s Confederate sympathies. “[W]hat appealed to Wilson about the Great Emancipator,” Goldberg notes, “was Lincoln’s ability to impose his will on the country. Lincoln was a centralizer, a modernizer who used his power to forge a new, united nation. In other words, Wilson admired Lincoln’s means—suspension of habeas corpus, the draft, and the campaigns of the radical Republicans after the war—far more than he liked his ends.”

  “ ‘glorified power’ ” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 104.

  “ ‘sincere body of thought in politics’ ” Josephus Daniels, Life of Woodrow Wilson (New York: Greenwood Press, 1971).

  “ ‘enlisting them in our purposes’ ” Charles R. Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), ch. 2, accessed May 24, 2016, http://bi.hcpdts.com/reflowable/scrollableiframe/9780062325204.

  “ ‘a new theory of the presidency’ ” Charles R. Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), ch. 2, accessed May 24, 2016, http://bi.hcpdts.com/reflowable/scrollableiframe/9780062325204.

  “ ‘then start your business’ ” Geoffrey Perrett, America in the Twenties: A History (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), p. 22.

  “ ‘threatened his own prestige’ ” William Allen White, Masks in a Pageant (New York: Macmillan, 1928), p. 357.

  “ ‘could have prevented that’ ” William C. Spragens, Popular Images of American Presidents (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988), p. 247. Marvin Olasky, The American Leadership Tradition: The Inevitable Impact of a Leader’s Faith on a Nation’s Destiny (New York: Free Press, 1999), p. 197.

  “a one-term limit on the presidency” Josephus Daniels, The Wilson Era: Years of Peace—1910–1917 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944), p. 102. Kirk H. Porter and Donald Bruce Johnson, National Party Platforms: 1840–1960 (Urbana, IL: The University of Illinois Press, 1961), p. 170. Michael J. Korzi, Presidential Term Limits in American History: Power, Principles, and Politics (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2011), p. 71. Woodrow Wilson: Life Before the Presidency,” The Miller Center, accessed May 24, 2016, http://millercenter.org/president/biography/wilson-life-before-the-presidency.

  “ ‘State’ is ‘Family’ writ large’ ” Ronald J. Pestritto, ed., Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), p. 33.

  “ ‘press onward to something new’ ” “Woodrow Wilson Asks ‘What Is Progress?’ ” The Heritage Foundation, accessed May 24, 2016, https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Word-keyboard-shortcuts-c0ca851f-3d58-4ce0-9867-799df73666a7.

  “ ‘Darwinian in structure and in practice’ ” Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1908), p. 57. “The Constitution: Anchor or Rudder,” The Outlook, September 26, 1908, p. 148, http://www.unz.org/Pub/Outlook-1908sep26-00147.

  “ ‘as checks, and live’ ” Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1908), p. 57. “The Constitution Anchor or Rudder,” The Outlook, September 26, 1908, p. 148, http://www.unz.org/Pub/Outlook-1908sep26-00147.

  “ ‘the document in which they are embodied’ ” Ellis Washington, “Mark Levin on President Woodrow Wilson,” WND.com, January 11, 2013, http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/mark-levin-on-president-woodrow-wilson/#V0q4ekeBULDHzg0w.99.

  “ ‘and not a machine’ ” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom: Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1918), p. 48.

  “ ‘do not repeat the preface’ ” Woodrow Wilson, “Address to the Jefferson Club of Los Angeles,” (speech, Los Angeles, May 12, 1911), Hillsdale College, http://cdn.constitutionreader.com/files/pdf/coursereadings/Con201_Readings_Week2_JeffersonClub.pdf.

  “ ‘know they are not’ ” Woodrow Wilson, “Address to the Jefferson Club of Los Angeles,” (speech, Los Angeles, May 12, 1911), Hillsdale College, http://cdn.constitutionreader.com/files/pdf/coursereadings/Con201_Readings_Week2_JeffersonClub.pdf.

  “ ‘make and unmake governments’ ” Ronald J. Pestritto, ed., Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), p. 4.

  “ ‘of all just political theory’ ” George F. Will, “The Simple Arithmetic That Could Jump-Start America’s Economic Growth,”
The Washington Post, January 29, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/smart-tax-reform-would-ignite-growth/2016/01/29/3f03bac2-c5e8-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html.

  “ ‘upon strict analysis, none’ ” George F. Will, “The Simple Arithmetic That Could Jump-Start America’s Economic Growth,” The Washington Post, January 29, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/smart-tax-reform-would-ignite-growth/2016/01/29/3f03bac2-c5e8-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html.

  “ ‘not a difference of primary motive’ ” Ronald J. Pestritto, ed., Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), p. 78.

  “ ‘glorious privilege’ ” George F. Will, “The Simple Arithmetic That Could Jump-Start America’s Economic Growth,” The Washington Post, January 29, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/smart-tax-reform-would-ignite-growth/2016/01/29/3f03bac2-c5e8-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html.

  “from seven percent to thirteen percent” “Tax History Museum: 1901-1932: The Income Tax Arrives,” Tax Analysts, accessed May 24, 2016, http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/Web/THM1901?OpenDocument.

  “marginal income tax of seventy-three percent” Meg Fowler, “From Eisenhower to Obama: What the Wealthiest Americans Pay in Taxes,” ABC News, January 24, 2011. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/eisenhower-obama-wealthy-americans-mitt-romney-pay-taxes/story?id=15387862.

  “remained above seventy percent” “Historical Individual Income Tax Parameters,” Tax Policy Center, accessed May 25, 2016, http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-individual-income-tax-parameters.

  “the Sixteenth Amendment” Dr. Thomas G. West and William A. Schambra. “The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics,” The Heritage Foundation, July 18, 2007, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/07/the-progressive-movement-and-the-transformation-of-american-politics.

  “tainted his decisions” “Editorial,” The Crisis 4, no. 4, August 1912, p. 181, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/civil-rights/crisis/0800-crisis-v04n04-w022.pdf.

  “ ‘the question will ever assume practical form’ ” Shan Wang, “Sorry, Ben Stein, These Presidents Were Way More Racist Than Obama,” Boston.com, November 4, 2014, http://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2014/11/04/sorry-ben-stein-these-presidents-were-way-more-racist-than-obama.

  “ ‘unwarranted’ ” A. Scott Berg, Wilson (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013), pp. 155-56.

  “was governor of New Jersey” Nathaniel Weyl & William Marina, American Statesmen on Slavery and the Negro (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1971), p. 329.

  “ ‘brought Jim Crow to the North’ ” Paul Rahe, “Progressive Racism,” The National Review, April 11, 2013, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/345274/progressive-racism-paul-rahe.

  “resegregated parts of the federal workforce” Paul Rahe, “Progressive Racism,” The National Review, April 11, 2013, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/345274/progressive-racism-paul-rahe.

  “serving as undersecretary” Nathaniel Weyl & William Marina, American Statesmen on Slavery and the Negro (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1971), p. 329.

  “ ‘except to do them justice’ ” Nathaniel Weyl & William Marina, American Statesmen on Slavery and the Negro (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1971), p. 329.

  “ ‘humiliating but a benefit . . . ’ ” “Commentary: Conversation, January, 1915: Mr. Trotter and Mr. Wilson,” The New Crisis, July/August 2000, p. 60.

  “banning interracial marriage” Larry Schwarts, “Who Was the Most Racist Modern President? 5 Surprising Candidates Who Fit the Bill,” AlterNet.org, December 28, 2014, http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/who-was-most-racist-modern-president-5-surprising-candidates-who-fit-bill.

  “the opportunity to fight for their country” Larry Schwarts, “Who Was the Most Racist Modern President? 5 Surprising Candidates Who Fit the Bill,” AlterNet.org, December 28, 2014, http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/who-was-most-racist-modern-president-5-surprising-candidates-who-fit-bill.

  “ ‘the ugliest hazards of a time of revolution’ ” Woodrow Wilson, A History of the American People, vol. 5 (New York: Harper & Bros., 1903), pp. 58, 60. See also: Melvyn Stokes, D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 119. Note: Another version of this quote—taken from a title card of Birth of a Nation is often cited—but this is the more account version of what Wilson really wrote.

  “based on Thomas J. Dixon Sr.’s 1905 novel The Clansman” Charles Paul Freund, “Dixiecrats Triumphant: The Menacing Mr. Wilson,” Reason.com, December 18, 2002, http://reason.com/archives/2002/12/18/dixiecrats-triumphant.

  “white actors in blackface” Charles Paul Freund, “Dixiecrats Triumphant: The Menacing Mr. Wilson,” Reason.com, December 18, 2002, http://reason.com/archives/2002/12/18/dixiecrats-triumphant.

  “ ‘it is all so terribly true’ ” Melvyn Stokes, D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 111.

  “The details are too horrific to repeat here” The Crisis 12, no. 3, July 1916, pp. 6–13.

  “Wilson took no action” “The Chicago Race Riot of 1919,” History.com, accessed May 25, 2016, http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/chicago-race-riot-of-1919.

  “ ‘Kikes, Koons, and Katholics’ ” David Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, The American Pageant, Volume 2: Since 1865 (Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2014), p. 665.

  “then not delivering” William Keyor. “The Long-Forgotten Racial Attitudes and Policies of Woodrow Wilson,” Professor Voices, Boston University, March 4, 2013, http://www.bu.edu/professorvoices/2013/03/04/the-long-forgotten-racial-attitudes-and-policies-of-woodrow-wilson/.

  “ ‘American workmen had never dreamed of hitherto’ ” Woodrow Wilson, A History of the American People (New York: Harper & Bros., 1902), pp. 212–13.

  “most disgusting notions of his time: eugenics” Merriam-Webster Online, “Simple Definition of Eugenics,” accessed May 25, 2016, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eugenics.

  “the nation’s first eugenics law” Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider (eds.), The Philosophy of Joss Whedon (Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 2011), p. 23. Paul Rahe, “Progressive Racism,” The National Review, April 11, 2013, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/345274/progressive-racism-paul-rahe.

  “ ‘other defectives’ ” Harry Hamilton Laughlin, Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (Chicago: Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court of Chicago, 1922), pp. 23–24. Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 255.

  “overturned by the New Jersey Supreme Court” Eugenics Record Office, II. The Legal, Legislative and Administrative Aspects of Sterilization, Harry H. Laughlin, Long Island, NY, February 1914 (Eugenics Record Office, Bulletin no. 10B), pp. 54–61, https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/556986/Bulletin10B.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. The “Eugenics Record Office” described itself as the “Committee to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means of Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the American Population.” You can’t make this stuff up.

  “minimum wage” Meghan, “The Real History Behind the Minimum Wage (HINT: It Involves Progressives and Eugenics),” GlennBeck.com, February 14, 2014, http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/02/14/the-real-history-behind-the-minimum-wage-hint-it-involves-progressives-and-eugenics/.

  “ ‘bring forth more of their kind’ ” Royal Meeker, review of Cours d’Economie Politique, by Georges Blanchard, Political Science Quarterly 25, no. 3, September 1910, p. 544. Qtd. in Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change (New York: Doubleday, 2007), p. 264. See also: Meghan, “The Real History Behind the Min
imum Wage (HINT: It Involves Progressives and Eugenics),” GlennBeck.com, February 14, 2014, http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/02/14/the-real-history-behind-the-minimum-wage-hint-it-involves-progressives-and-eugenics/.

  “those students never challenged him” Robert M. Saunders, In Search of Woodrow Wilson: Beliefs and Behavior (West Port, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998), p. 16.

  “ ‘the intellectual equal of men’ ” Robert M. Saunders, In Search of Woodrow Wilson: Beliefs and Behavior (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998), p. 16.

  “ ‘insulting, unfeminine, and unpatriotic’ ” “Woodrow Wilson—A Portrait” Women’s Suffrage, PBS, accessed May 25, 2016, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_suffrage.html.

  “were force-fed” “President Woodrow Wilson Picketed by Women Suffragists,” This Day in History (blog), History.com, August 28, 2009, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-woodrow-wilson-picketed-by-women-suffragists.

  “an ‘unconstitutional governor’ ” Ronald J. Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005), p. 170.

  “ ‘seditious’ materials through the U.S. Mail” T. Jefferson, “Glenn Beck: Propaganda in America,” GlennBeck.com, May 28 2010, http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41221/.

  “the Boy Spies of America” T. Jefferson, “Glenn Beck: Propaganda in America,” GlennBeck.com, May 28 2010, http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41221/.

  “threat to the U.S republic” T. Jefferson, “Glenn Beck: Propaganda in America,” GlennBeck.com, May 28 2010, http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41221/.

  “ ‘He kept us out of war’ ” Herbert Eaton, Presidential Timber: A History of Nominating Conventions, 1868–1960 (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1964), p. 258.