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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... speaking to alumni groups and seeking out and entertaining potential donors. His plans were appealing and he was persuasive; the money came. Beyond brick and mortar expansion, the agenda called for more money for faculty, who, he ...
... speaking campaign aimed at alumni, convinced their opposition was uninformed and that he could bring them to see the wisdom of his idea. The skeptics refused to convert. By spring 1908, even his loyalists recognized that the plan was ...
... speaking tour of western states and returned with a touch of presidential fever. Wilson-for-President clubs popped up in New Jersey by summer. With one eye on such flattering signs, the governor turned his attention to tightening his ...
... speaking out against the war. In one of the more heartless decisions of his presidency, Wilson refused to pardon an old and ailing Debs when the war was over. That kindness fell to Warren Harding. One potential recruit for the war was ...
... Edith, Wilson set out on a month-long speaking tour that was scheduled to take him to California and back. As the tour moved west, the press began to report larger and more enthusiastic crowds. It seemed for a time that the 38 introduction.
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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 |