Treaty of Versailles

<p><span class="deck">The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first.</span></p>

<p>We republish an essay President Hoover wrote for <em>American Heritage</em> in 1958 in which he recounted his experiences as an aide to Woodrow Wilson at the peace talks after World War I. This important first-person narrative candidly details the difficulties that Wilson faced in what Hoover called “the greatest drama of intellectual leadership in all history.”</p>