Woodrow Wilson’s Failure of Wartime Leadership – Richard Striner

On December 11, 2016, our lecture series, “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of World War I, featured Richard Striner, Professor of History at Washington College, author of Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden Too Great to Bear (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014). Striner has established himself as an expert on presidential power, especially the political life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln, the subject of three of his four books. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times’ “Opinionator” blog and its “Disunion” series on the Civil War.