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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... hands-on, activist involvement in the legislative infighting both as governor and president. When Wilson became more active in politics, even while still president of Princeton, he underwent a gradual transformation of political posture ...
... hands of Henry Cabot Lodge and a resistant U.S. Senate. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856, the son, grandson, and nephew of Presbyterian ministers. His identification as a southerner and a deep ...
... hand stiff and cramped for some time. He dismissed the episode as writer's cramp from overwork, but it may have been the first of a series of strokes that afflicted him at about ten-year intervals, although this diagnosis from a ...
... hand weak. The weakness passed, but he never fully regained sight in the left eye. A summer of rest and a vacation trip to England seemed to restore his vigor, and in the fall he took up his work again to continue the restructuring of ...
... hand, interfered with the right to work and the freedom of contract. He criticized the muckraking critics of bankers, but also called on bankers to act more responsibly as “intermediaries between capital and the people.” He had high ...
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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 |