Throughout this narrative the author combines the historical material with an expert understanding of Wilson's ailments to point out ways in which the state of his health changed the course of national and international events.

Originally published in 1981.

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Edwin A. Weinstein

• FrontMatter,
• CONTENTS,
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS,
• PREFACE,
• CHRONOLOGY OF WOODROW WILSON'S MAJOR ILLNESSES,
• CHAPTER I. Family and Boyhood,
• CHAPTER II. Princeton Student,
• CHAPTER III. The Law and Love,
• CHAPTER IV. The Johns Hopkins and Marriage,
• CHAPTER V. Bryn Mawr and the Opposite Sex,
• CHAPTER VI. From Wesleyan to Princeton,
• CHAPTER VII. Princeton, 1890-1896,
• CHAPTER VIII. Wilson's Imagery: Language and Stress,
• CHAPTER IX. The First Strokes,
• CHAPTER X. A Major Stroke and Its Consequences: The Quadrangle Plan,
• CHAPTER XI. "Dearest Friend": The Story of Mrs. Peck,
• CHAPTER XII. The Graduate College Controversy,
• CHAPTER XIII. The New Morality,
• CHAPTER XIV. Political Apprenticeship,
• CHAPTER XV. An Untimely Blow: The Death of Ellen Axson Wilson,
• CHAPTER XVI. "The Strangest Friendship in History",
• CHAPTER XVII. The Second Mrs. Wilson and the Break with Bryan,
• CHAPTER XVIII. From Peace to War,
• CHAPTER XIX. Prelude to Paris,
• CHAPTER XX. The Paris Peace Conference,
• CHAPTER XXI. A Massive Stroke and the Politics of Denial,
• CHAPTER XXII. Last Years,
• SOURCES AND WORKS CITED,
• INDEX,