Woodrow Wilson 1913 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Steel Giants of the Machine

Steel Giants of the Machine Age rises in a rendering of riveted ambition — towers shouldering through Manhattan haze in the years when skyscrapers were measured not just in stories but in the audacity of their setbacks

The Kentuckian who rode the legend of Tecumseh's death into Van Buren's second chair

and any space that marks the moment America stepped onto the world stage as an empire of its own

its title alone betraying the era's faith that even domestic sentiment could be mass-produced and sold by the thousand to households hungry for the trappings of refinement

Woodrow Wilson 1913 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Steel Giants of the MachineWoodrow Wilson 1913. A presidential portrait from the inaugural year of the scholar president, caught in the brief calm before Sarajevo the Princeton academic newly installed in the White House, his brow already arranged for the sober century he would be asked to govern. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the