Book Review: Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda, by John Maxwell Hamilton

2021 ◽  
pp. 107769902110425
Author(s):  
Bradley Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
The Masses

Book Review: Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal.

1946 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-212
Author(s):  
O. T. Binkley
Keyword(s):  
Woodrow Wilson

National Show Town

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Myers Asch ◽  
George Derek Musgrove
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Interracial Interaction ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Spatial Changes ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The City

This chapter examines the massive demographic and spatial changes that reordered Washington’s racial geography in the decades between disfranchisement in 1878 and the election of Woodrow Wilson to the presidency in 1912. As the federal government expanded and real estate boomed, the city burst its bounds and extended far beyond the central core. Driven by real estate developers, urban planners, and congressional leaders who could act without local democratic accountability, the city became a “national show town” featuring a monumental core of federal buildings and monuments. Its residents spread out into surrounding neighborhoods that were increasingly segregated by race and class, as exclusive suburban enclaves put physical and psychological distance between wealthy white Washingtonians and the masses of poor residents, black and white. Without the pull of integrated politics to promote interracial interaction, life in Washington became more segregated than ever before.

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