Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-presidentNYU Press, 2006 - Počet stran: 429 From the Ivy League to the oval office, Woodrow Wilson was the only professional scholar to become a U.S. president. A professor of history and political science, Wilson became the dynamic president of Princeton University in 1902 and was one of its most prolific scholars before entering active politics. Through his labors as student, scholar, and statesman, he left a legacy of elegant writings on everything from educational reform to religion to history and politics. |
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... give us uncommon access to the mind of this American leader. This collection of Wilson's writing reveals the thought of a rare figure in American history, the scholar-statesman. Among the last of the presidents to write his own ...
... give a Democratic president a great victory so near the election of 1920. For all of his political life, Lodge was an internationalist who labored persistently to enlarge American power and its role in world affairs. He was convinced by ...
... calling. We find ourselves instinctively admiring the bandit or highwayman who dies courageously and who not only does not give any sign of repentance, but even maintains his innocence to the last. Up to 44 0n religion.
... gives vent to fears, lest his carnal mind should gain the mastery. In one place he says: “But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” If ...
... gives strength, it may be rugged and cumbersome. Imagination must be present to give it wings and a graceful flight. And one of the most striking features of Pitt's mind was “a poetic imaginativeness” which set his words fairly aglow ...
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On Education and Scholarship | 106 |
The Historian | 147 |
The Political Scientist | 218 |
New Jersey Politics | 313 |
Road to the White House | 341 |
President Wilson | 366 |
Plenary Session of the Peace Conference | 407 |
at Pueblo Colorado | 411 |
About the Editor | 429 |