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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... never inclined to the radical, President Wilson's progressive New Freedom achievements brought important reforms to the nation and recast the role of the presidency and the federal government in preface xv Appeal for Support of the ...
... never fully realized during his presidency. World War I propelled Wilson onto the world stage. Much has been written about Wilsonian neutrality policy, the Versailles Treaty, and his role in the struggle to establish the League of ...
... never halting in addressing the increasingly enthusiastic crowds who came to hear his appeal for the American entry into the League of Nations. Struggling past the crippled sentence, he managed to finish his speech with a moving call ...
... never written. On June 9, 1902, the Princeton board of trustees unanimously elected Wilson to the presidency, the first layman chosen for the position. This new turn ended his serious work as a scholar. University administration and the ...
... never approached the impassioned crusading style of William Jennings Bryan or Robert La Follette. Wilson's academic success fed an already fulsome self-confidence, and, perhaps reenforced by his religious convictions, nurtured in him a ...
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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 |