Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-presidentNYU Press, 2006 - 429 Seiten 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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... Senate. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856, the son, grandson, and nephew of Presbyterian ministers. His identification as a southerner and a deep fidelity to his religious roots shaped his ...
... Senate would not suffer from such an association. Early in 1910, Harvey tried to convince Wilson to become a candidate for governor. At first evasive, Wilson eventually agreed he would accept the nomination but would not actively ...
... Senate. Smith was successfully challenged in a nonbinding primary by a perennially unsuccessful office seeker, James E. Martine, a Bryan Democrat for whom, incidentally, Wilson had little respect. In part because of his public support ...
... senators, banking reform, and an exemption for labor from the injunction provisions of the Sherman Act, which was aimed at trusts but often hit unions. Progressives of both parties had long favored these planks, and some ideas, which ...
... senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island presented a central bank plan congenial to the banking community. Progressives were hostile to the Aldrich scheme, which still left too much control in the hands of Wall Street. The alternative ...
Inhalt
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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 |