Cooper, however, believes Wilson was genuinely concerned about inadvertently spreading misinformation after the sinking of the Lusitania.

BBC: Woodrow Wilson's odd early press conferences

One chapter that begins with a description of Duveen's relationship with Henry Clay Frick, who in his old age became one of Duveen's most important clients, directly follows another that ends with an account of the sinking of the Lusitania in the spring of 1915.

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