How Long to Read Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour

How Long Does it Take to Read Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour by J. Michael Hogan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

On September 3, 1919, Woodrow Wilson embarked upon one of the most ambitious and controversial speaking tours in the history of American politics: a grueling 8,000-mile, twenty-two-day tour across the Midwest and Far West in support of the League of Nations. Historians still debate Wilson’s motivations for touring in the first place, but most agree with Thomas Bailey that the tour proved a disastrous blunder. Not only did Wilson collapse before completing his swing around the circle, but the treaty likely would have been defeated even if the tour had succeeded beyond all expectations. Most agree that Wilson’s decision to tour was misguidedthe product of an exaggerated sense of his own persuasiveness, a martyr complex, or even mental illness. In this masterful work, J. Michael Hogan offers the first detailed analysis of Wilsons speeches on the tour, including the most celebrated speech of the campaign, his famous address in Pueblo, Colorado. Assessing the tour in light of Wilsons own scholarly writings about civic discourse and democratic deliberation, Hogan provides new insight into Wilsons failure and a new understanding of this watershed event in the history of American public address. Over the course of the tour, Hogan argues, Wilson abandoned his own principles of oratorical statesmanship and increasingly resorted to the techniques of the propagandist and the demagogue. In the process, he subverted what he himself called the common counsel of public deliberation and foreshadowed some of the worst tendencies of the modern rhetorical presidency.

How long is Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour?

Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour by J. Michael Hogan is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour aloud.

What Reading Level is Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour?

Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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