Professional Affiliation

Biographer; former professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University; fellow of the Society of American Historians

Expert Bio

Patricia O’Toole is the author of five books, including The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made, When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House, and The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A former professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and a fellow of the Society of American Historians, she lives in Camden, Maine.

Wilson Center Project

Engaging the World, a book on Woodrow Wilson's – and America's – response to the foreign policy challenges of his presidency