Woodrow Wilson - in First Person

I am the shell of a man that once stood up to champion the rights of the American individual and the noble country America in the Treaty of Versailles. The year is 1922 and I am no longer the American president due to a series of strokes that have physically weakened me, but once upon a time I was a man of standing, a man capable of bringing about tremendous change in one of the greatest countries of the world. I am Woodrow Wilson and here is my story.
Born in Staunton, Virginia in 1856 to a Presbyterian minister who during the Civil War was a pastor in Augusta, Georgia, I knew of the horrors of war. I was educated at Princeton University followed by the University of Virginia Law School and finally awarded a doctorate in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1886. …