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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... modern scholarship. Writing as a young political scientist in “Cabinet Government in the United States” (1879) and in his book Congressional Government (1885), Wilson argued his sympathies for the British parliamentary system ...
... modern academic design that could also preserve a respect for tradition. Contrary to the trend of the late nineteenth century, Wilson sided with Matthew Arnold in advocating a humanistic undergraduate education over a introduction 7.
... modern capitalism. Three presidents accomplished the transformation. Theodore Roosevelt had set the precedents for federal action, Wilson expanded them, and under the massive reforms of Franklin Roosevelt the process was largely ...
... modern times the Christian who was a Christian “not in word only but in deed and in truth” was much admired. In this age of ours there is a growing tendency to depreciate all positivism in religion. Men say that the harsh tenets and ...
... modern life, he thought, dictated an important role for the Church. Wilson wrote of “the Church” here in the broadest sense, embracing both Protestant and Catholic in a kind of ecumenical appeal for all clergymen to stand in judgment ...
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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 |