| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House. By Godfrey Hodgson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv, 335 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-09269-5.)
In this noteworthy biography, Godfrey Hodgson analyzes the life of President Woodrow Wilson's close friend Edward M. House. Well written and based on both primary and secondary sources, this study offers a generally favorable view of House. It gives him considerable credit for Wilson's political and diplomatic success and largely blames the president and his second wife for the break in their friendship and for the unfortunate global consequences of this personal tragedy.	1
Hodgson notes the biography's relevance, given that House was a key architect of Wilsonianism, which continues to shape the debate over America's role in world affairs. American leaders are still seeking to spread democracy as the foundation of world peace. In what became the typical American pattern, Hodgson observes, Wilson and House combined elements of idealism and realism in their new approach to foreign relations. Wilson was the idealist and House the realist.	. . .

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