War By Jim Powell Summary

This book written by Jim Powell asks a series of questions that express how President Woodrow Wilson made choices that ultimately lead to Hitler, Lenin, and Stalin, and biggest of all, World War II. Powell says that when Wilson gave in to the pressure to unleash the power of The United States on Germany, he undermined efforts to develop a viable German republic. Wilson said that it was necessary for the U.S. to join the war because it was a national duty to make the world safe for democracy however, because of the way the U.S. entered the war under such hard conditions on Germany and feeding in to other ruler’s selfish and revengeful ideals it did the exact opposite. When the guilt clause was giving to Germany it destroyed the German economy allowing Hitler to come in and take

Powell commonly touches on how no other president has been involved in the deaths of so many people regardless if it was unintentional and that is why, in his opinion, Woodrow Wilson is the worst president the U.S. has had. The reason Jim Powell wrote this book was to enlighten and explain his educated opinion to its readers. Powell is a historian who contributed years of study and research to be able to write this book, which is why he was not objective. Powell declares early on, “Wilson surely ranks as the worst president in American history”, showing that he is not afraid to express his opinion. Even though the author was very opinionated the writing was still very interesting and well thought out. It was easy to see that Powell was very educated and clever when discussing this topic in history. This book related to me because I have family who fought in World War II and to think that the decisions of one of our most liked presidents