The Mirrors of Washington

Fourteen unsparing portraits of the men who ran America in 1921 — Harding, Wilson, Hoover, Lodge — published anonymously, illustrated with Cesare's caricatures, and gossiped about in every capital drawing room.

Woodrow Wilson

9 pages in this part of The Mirrors of Washington.

Woodrow Wilson

THE explanation of President Wilson will be found in a certain inferiority. When all his personal history becomes known, when his papers…

Woodrow Wilson: Sometimes

He despised politicians, he despised business men, he despised the whole range of men who pursue worldly arts with success. He despised the…

Woodrow Wilson: Harding

But always the one safe recourse, the one assurance of personal stability was arrogance. Contempt was the most characteristic habit of his…

Woodrow Wilson: Lodge

More than all others he scorned Lodge. The Massachusetts Senator who had put by scholarship for politics and had won the opportunity to do…

Woodrow Wilson: Democratic

The story of the President's appeal for a Democratic Congress in 1918 which has never been fully told, illustrates the bearing this Lodge…

Woodrow Wilson: Cummings

Shortly afterward Mr. Tumulty, the President's Secretary, brought to the Shoreham Hotel in Washington an appeal to the country for a…

Woodrow Wilson: League

For a while at Paris amid the triumphs of his European reception and the successes of the first few months up to the adoption of the League…

Woodrow Wilson: Clemenceau

He talked long and well, answered questions freely, told stories of his associates at the peace table, especially of one who never read the…

Woodrow Wilson: Lloyd

From that moment the decline began. Mr. Wilson had unwisely chosen to have his victory first and his defeats afterward, always bad general…

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