ew presidents in American his- tory elicit more mixed feelings than Woodrow Wilson, And why not? His life and career were full of contradictions that have puled historians for 70 years. A victim of childhood dyslexia, he be- came an avid reader, a skilled academic, and a popular writer and lecturer. A deeply religious man, who some described as "a Presbyterian priest" with a dour view of man's imperfectability, he devoted himself to secular designs promising the triumph of reason and...