[ProgressingAmerica]

If anybody wants on/off the revolutionary progressivism ping list, send me a message

Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

[BenLurkin]

Wilson — Worse than Carter — a genuine disaster for history in general, and America in particular.

[biggredd1]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_Yi57zUYAALHu5.jpg:large

[x]

Harper & Brothers published Wilson's A Short History of the People of the United States, and excerpts appeared in the magazine in 1901 and 1902.

Subscribers can read them online. Google books also has some pages from Harper's Weekly with comments other papers made on Harvey's promoting Wilson for president.

NY Times subscribers can also read this article from 1912: WILSON ASHAMED, HE TELLS HARVEY; Tactlessly Hurt "a True Friend" and Consents to Apology Being Made Public.

Harvey made a fortune in street railways with Whitney and Ryan (J.P. Morgan was assumed to be involved as well). Harvey promoted Wilson as a conservative Democrat in opposition to Bryan's populist wing of the party. Later he broke bitterly with Wilson, who he felt had turned too sharply to the left.

Harvey went on to back Hughes and Harding in the next two elections. Wilson had a history of bitter breaks with friends and allies, so one can wonder just what it was that actually caused the breach. Wilson's famous tactlessness maybe?

[TBP]

Good question. Wilson was a virulent racist.

TR helped too, by splitting the anti-Wilson vote.

[Dalberg-Acton]

This guy had a big part in getting Wilson in office.