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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... 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 addresses, everything in the work is ...
... mind was firmly set. He confessed a temptation to engage in what he described as practical matters of worldly importance and had little difficulty imagining himself as a leader. Election to the presidency of Princeton gave Wilson his ...
... mind or his determination to continue the fight. He decided on a speaking campaign aimed at alumni, convinced their opposition was uninformed and that he could bring them to see the wisdom of his idea. The skeptics refused to convert ...
... minds by a very brief statement of the principles bearing upon it. Although there are principles of duty to his party ... mind the true view of his subject, he should be tolerant. He should have a becoming sense of his own weakness and ...
... 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 this mighty soul, whose chief and ...
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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 |