I picked this up at a library book sale a few years ago and read it now because the author of a new book about Wilson is coming to speak here next week (Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment). 
 The entire book is summarized sufficiently in the preface and one would only read the whole thing to find the intricate details of how Wilson courted his second wife, how Wilson's son-in-law got pulled into the Teapot Dome Scandal and who was excluded from his funeral. Also, there are little gems like this: 
 The three men and the woman went into the Mayflower's sitting room and ordered cool drinks. Out to serve them came a tiny Negro White House servant, "Little" Jackson (sometimes "Major" Jackson), wearing a gigantic mushroom-shaped chef's hat almost as big as he. It sheltered him like a toadstool, the First Lady thought. They all burst into laughter - which pleased Tumulty, who had gone into some trouble to get the hat made. 
 What the holy hell? I still don't know why this was in the book. Civil Rights and Jim Crow were never mentioned. 
 This is the story of Wilson's fight for the League of Nations and his mental breakdown and partial paralysis. Apparently, the real story had never been told in such detail before and it was a wild roller coaster ride. No president for months but everyone had to pretend he was fine. The Secretary of State (Lansing) held informal meetings with the other cabinet members during this time to try to get some stuff figured out, but Lansing was forced to resign over it as it was perceived by the recovering president as usurping his power. The president and his wife became extremely insular and collected grudges that forced his most loyal supporters into a state of exile. The book spends more pages on Wilson's funeral than on the details of the League of Nations fight and more pages on the cheering crowds in Europe in 1918 than on the treaty that he wanted the senate to endorse.