John M. Cooper
Encyclopedia
John M. Cooper is an American historian
, author
, and educator. His specialization is late 19th and early 20th century American Diplomatic History. Cooper is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His most recent book, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, was published in 2009. It is described as "the first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades." The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
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Westport, Conn., Greenwood Publishing Corp., 1969
Historian
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, author
Author
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, and educator. His specialization is late 19th and early 20th century American Diplomatic History. Cooper is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His most recent book, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, was published in 2009. It is described as "the first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades." The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.-1910s:* 1917: Julia Ward Howe by Laura E...
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Books
- The Vanity of Power; American Isolationism and the First World War. 1914-1917.
Westport, Conn., Greenwood Publishing Corp., 1969
- Editor, Causes and Consequences of World War I. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1972
- Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American,1855-1918. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977
- The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson an Theodore Roosevelt. Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard University Press, 1983
- Pivotal Decades: The United States 1900-1920. New York W.W. Norton & Co., 1990
- Editor with Charles E. Neu, The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link. Arlington Heights, ILL., Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1991
- Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001
- Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. New York: Vintage: 2011