Woodrow Wilson's Troubling Faith

Barry Hankins's book is the first entry in Oxford University Press's Spiritual Lives series, which “features biographies of prominent men and women whose eminence is not primarily based on a specifically religious contribution.” In this slim and eminently readable volume, Hankins deftly narrates Wilson's 67-year journey from Staunton, Virginia, where he was born in 1856, to Princeton, the White House, and beyond.