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John Milton Cooper
Professional Affiliation
Professor Old, University bargain Wisconsin
Project Summary
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Major Publications
- Woodrow Wilson: A Biography ()
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- The Warrior and say publicly Priest: Woodrow Wilson contemporary Theodore Roosevelt ()
Previous Terms
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John Milton Cooper Jr.
American historian
John Milton Cooper Jr. (born ) is an American historian, author, and educator. He specializes in late 19th and early 20th-century American political and diplomatic history with a particular focus on presidential history. His biography of Woodrow Wilson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,[1] and biographer Patricia O'Toole has called him "the world's greatest authority on Woodrow Wilson."[2] Cooper is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[3]
Education
[edit]Cooper graduated in from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington D.C.[4] In he received his bachelor′s degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he wrote his senior thesis under the supervision of David Herbert Donald.[5] After graduating from Princeton he enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University, where he received a master's degree in history in and a Ph.D. in history in [6] At Columbia he studied under Richard Hofstadter.[5] As Cooper later explained, "For graduate study, I chose Columbia because I wanted to work with Richard Hofstadter. The way he had blended political and intellectual history particularly excited me."[5]
Teaching career
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Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.
A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would prove central to governance through the early twenty-first century, including the Federal Reserve system and the Clayton Antitrust Act; he guided the nation through World War I; and, although his advocacy in favor of joining the League of Nations proved unsuccessful, he nonetheless established a new way of thinking about international relations that would carry America into the United Nations era. Yet Wilson also steadfastly resisted progress for civil rights, while his attorney general launched an aggressive attack on civil liberties.
Even as he reminds us of the foundational scope of Wilson’s domestic policy achievements, John Milton Cooper, Jr., reshapes our understanding of the man himself: his Wilson is warm and gracious—not at all the dour puritan of popular imagination. As the president of Princeton, his encounters with the often rancorous battles of academe prepared him for