The Moralist

Contents

Author’s Note: A Moralist in the White House

1. Son of the South

2. When a Man Comes to Himself

4. Against All Odds

5. A New Freedom

6. A President Begins

7. Lines of Accommodation

8. Our Detached and Distant Situation

10. A Psychological Moment

12. The General Wreck

15. Strict Accountability

17. Dodging Trouble

18. The World Is on Fire

19. Stumbling in the Dark

20. The Mystic Influence of the Stars and Stripes

21. By a Whisker

22. Verge of War

24. The Associate

25. The Right Men

26. One White-Hot Mass Instinct

27. Over Here, Over There

28. So Many Problems Per Diem

30. Final Triumph

31. Storm Warning

32. The Fog of Peace

33. Settling the Accounts

34. Stroking the Cat the Wrong Way

36. Altogether an Unfortunate Mess

37. Breaking the Heart of the World

38. Best of the Second-Raters

39. Swimming Upstream

Epilogue: The Wilsonian Century

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Illustration Credits