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Woodrow Wilson: Disciple of Revolution (1938) — Jennings C. Wise’s Critical Biography of the 28th U.S. President

Wise, Jennings C. Woodrow Wilson: Discipline of Revolution. New York: Paisley Press, 1938. Contextual Background Jennings C. Wise’s Woodrow Wilson: Disciple of Revolution (1938) is a sweeping, polemical biography that presents a controversial, revisionist portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. The book was published at a time when Wilson's legacy—especially regarding internationalism, the League of Nations, and post-World War I diplomacy—was being hotly debated in American political and intellectual circles. Wise, a Confederate apologist, military historian, and critic of centralized federal power, approached Wilson's life with deep suspicion, viewing him not as a humanitarian idealist (as many contemporaries did) but as a manipulative political figure molded and manipulated by internationalist elites. Wise challenges the standard narrative of Wilson as a progressive idealist. Instead, he casts Wilson as an unwitting agent (or even a disciple) of globalist revolutionaries—especially those promoting international arbitration, economic liberalism, and the undermining of national sovereignty. Central to this interpretation is Wise’s fixation on Wilson’s relationship with Colonel Edward

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