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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (940)	10/28/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

However, I am afraid that I must reveal myself to be a fink: I think imperialism was largely a good thing... heh. I figured that out early on. But that's part of what makes the thread so very interesting. Although I tend to think the dissolution of empire was a good thing, I'm willing to withhold judgement on it. Whether good or bad, I would argue that it was the dominant trend of the 20th Century. One of the folks who becomes a necessary entrant in the top 20 under my framework is Woodrow Wilson. He was what might be called an accidental president who barely won the office in both of his elections. Despite the stunning changes in American domestic policy enacted during his first hundred days (changes that are anathema to most threadsters here), he was, in the end, judged to be an inept politician. Because he was never a popular president, he was judged poorly by his contemporaries and by many since. Despite his unquestioned failures in the Paris peace talks, Wilson introduced unique concepts that were to become the guiding principles of world politics following the second world war. Like Jefferson at the founding of the country (and very much in the same tradition), Wilson introduced into politics ideas that would have profound and unanticipated resonance for a long time thereafter.