Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-presidentNYU Press, 2006 - 429 páginas 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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... tension between the two men. In fact, Wilson so admired Turner's work that he tried to bring the historian into the Princeton faculty. His effort was spurned by the board of trustees on what to a later age seems introduction 5.
... fact, an important victory for Wilson. The old party horses were startled into attention by his political skill and obvious public influence; progressives cheered a new champion against the bosses, and the country began to notice ...
... fact, already launched Wilson's presidential campaign. In July 1911, a Wilson headquarters opened in Manhattan, and Wilson clubs organized around the country. Expressions of encouragement and support streamed in steadily; a few were ...
... fact neither side was interested in peace without victory. It was one of the ugly ironies of war that the combatants could not stop fighting because too many men had already died. None of the warring governments dared face their people ...
... fact, already launched a war against the United States, counting on victory before the Americans could be ready to fight. The Germans miscalculated. They challenged the United States in the area of its greatest strength, the ability to ...
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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 |