Why did President Wilson not press for many of the social reforms?
Woodrow Wilson had studied under the Social Gospel leader (and economist) Richard T. Ely at Johns Hopkins in the 1880s, and he represented the sensibility of the mainstream Protestant churches in his approach to reform.In 1917, Wilson arranged to send one of the most radical Social Gospel firebrands of the 1890s as his emissary to Lenin after the Russian revolution.
