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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... responsibility and diminish accountability. Wilson was unimpressed by the quality of men drawn to Congress and thought the American presidency a weak office. Less a political philosopher than a careful investigator, 6 introduction.
... responsibility. Wilson allows “no middle course, no neutrality.” The primacy of religion marked his advice to the statesman, who should be a Christian and a gentleman according to biblical standards. As he did throughout his religious ...
... responsibility, both to God and man. This last phase of the subject, is the one we wish to present to thoughtful minds by a very brief statement of the principles bearing upon it. Although there are principles of duty to his party and ...
... responsibility. It is impossible that he should exercise, except within a very narrow circle, independent judgment. And therefore the old forms of moral responsibility we find it very difficult to apply. For, in order that we should be ...
... responsibility and corporate responsibility. The Church ought to discover the individual in mo- dem society. The great temptation to every man in business affairs in our day is that he can so easily run to covert on religion 49.
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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 |