A Peaceful Conquest

This slender monograph places Woodrow Wilson's religiosity within the broad context of American religious history and uses his life and career as a way to explore the “relationship between American religions and foreign relations in the twentieth century” (p. 9). Cara Lea Burnidge traces the influence of Rev. Joseph Wilson, who believed in the centrality of white male leadership, on his son's development, explains Woodrow Wilson's role as a social Christian (convinced that he had a mission to construct the kingdom of God on earth), and charts Wilson's transformation from a domestic reformer to a leader who grew in confidence during World War I and who concluded that the conflict gave the United States the opportunity to pursue a Christian internationalism and inaugurate a new era in human history. Confident in his faith and certain of God's design, Wilson believed in American exceptionalism and in the peaceful triumph of American democracy

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