Creating Welfare States?: A Comparative History of Early Child Labor Legislation

one party. In sum, it is Neu’s failure to illuminate the eponymous figure at the center of his titular circle that most disappoints. Thankfully, the book bucks the current trend of portraying Wilson as the worst embodiment of every national sin and shame with which our nation needs to reckon. But it does so without offering an alternative interpretation of this complicated figure and his momentous administration.