Woodrow Wilson: Evaluation Wilson was an immediate failure, a victim of innocence abroad in the hands of war-weary European powers. Wilson was more a visionary than a problem solver, however, “Wilson’s intellectual victory proved more seminal than any political triumph could have been. For, whenever America has faced the task of constructing a new world order, it has returned in one way or another to Woodrow Wilson’s precepts.” (Kissinger 54). The long-term result of Wilson’s vision was a political following known as Wilsonianism, and even though the treaty failed to prevent future struggles, the strength and prosperity of the new, highly industrialized America would continue to place America at the forefront of international conflicts and agreements. “The postwar world became largely America’s creation, so that in the end, it did come to play the role Wilson had envisioned for it—as a beacon to follow, and a hope to attain.” (Kissinger 55). Years after World War II, historian Arthur S. Link would write of President Wilson. “One thing is certain,” Link stated, “now that men have the power to sear virtually the entire face of the earth: The prophet of 1919 was right in his larger vision; the challenge that he raised then is today no less real or no less urgent than it was in his own time.” (Stone 118).       T. Roosevelt           Wilson          Philosophy          Incidents          Advisers          Evaluation          Citations           F. Roosevelt        Truman        Eisenhower        Kennedy        Johnson        Nixon        Carter        Reagan        Bush

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