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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... thought of a rare figure in American history, the scholar-statesman. Among the last of the presidents to write his own addresses, everything in the work is genuinely his. Included here are selections from all his major works, as well as ...
... thought deeply about the nature of liberal education, developed firm ideas about some of the worrisome changes emerging in American higher education, and wrote often as an advocate of his vision of learning. That vision prescribed not ...
... thought. Deletions are indicated by ellipses [...] for internal elisions and asterisks [ ] for omissions between sections. Providence College July 2005 introduction Woodrow Wilson Scholar-President The president stared at his ...
... thought, but less evident in his scholarly writing, which was so barren of religious argument that some questioned his Presbyterian orthodoxy. His work was marked by realism and was much influenced by the English political writer ...
... thought suggested a somewhat conservative inclination. On important contemporary political issues Wilson expressed no sympathy for the Populists of his day and favored the “gold Democrat” position on the hot monetary dispute of the ...
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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 |