New Release:

Wilson & Baruch

Author: Tom Russo

Publication Date: October 2025

The 28th President, Woodrow Wilson, confronted with the reality of America’s entry into the Great War, sought to provide a global structure for maintaining peace in the “emerging” brotherhood of mankind. The existing system practiced by the Europeans for centuries resulted in militarism, competition for colonies, and secret treaties that exercised balance-of-power politics. American security had been protected by its isolation, neutrality, and avoidance of European intrigue. Wilson foresaw a new world order was America’s destiny. Today, it has become known as Wilsonianism.

Russo's interpretive history explores Bernard M. Baruch's role to influence Congressional leaders and White House occupants with Wilsonianism in America’s age of isolation, throughout the 1920s and '30s. Through his protégé, Wilson's legacy persisted in the interwar years before the nation realized its emerging role in maintaining a moral and legal order among nations. America’s mission: A world safe for democracy.

Wilson & Baruch features over 90 photographs and illustrations in 456 pages that includes an extensive bibliography, a bibliographical essay and numerous footnotes.