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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... hope for a new start in inter-American relations, a hope 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 ...
... hope to match the reputation of Harvard or Yale or Columbia without a great infusion of money. To execute the reforms necessary for Princeton, he would need $6 million at the start and more later. In turn-of-the-century dollars this was ...
... hope that their influence on Wilson did not dissolve completely. The election was a triumph. Wilson won 54 percent of the vote and carried a Democratic House into office with him in a state that had given Taft and the Republicans a ...
... hope of decent government, and Victoriano Huerta, the most recent usurper and a murder suspect. Wilson looked for an opportunity to intervene on behalf of Carranza, and it came in April 1914. American sailors, ashore at Tampico to ...
... hope of better relations with a triumphant Carranza soon gave way to more tension and confusion. Francisco Villa, once a cattle rustler and outlaw, had supported Carranza's cause but was soon plotting against him and acting as a kind of ...
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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 |