Abstract
Long a favorite of political scientists who worried about the limitations of the Constitution and looked to the presidency to meet the governing challenges of the twentieth century, Woodrow Wilson has more recently been taken to task for rejecting the wisdom of the founders and fostering developments productive of a systemic crisis of national authority. Curiously, this critique proceeds on a view of Wilson's historical significance that is not all that different from the one previously offered by his champions. Wilson appears in both the old and new assessments as the repudiator of original understandings of the president's role and the seminal advocate of changes we now associate with modern modes of leadership. Drawing on the histories of the United States that Wilson wrote in the 1890s, we step further down the path of revision.
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