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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... followed were an enviable achievement for a student still short of his Ph.D. He took the degree after successful examinations in 1886, after he had begun his teaching career at Bryn Mawr College. Wilson arrived at Bryn Mawr with his new ...
... followed left little time for research. Wilson's writing offers clues about the man and his future as a leader. Religion was centrally important to his life and thought, but less evident in his scholarly writing, which was so barren of ...
... followed the Princeton lead in this kind of curriculum revision. More innovation followed. The administration was thoroughly reorganized. The faculty 8 introduction.
... followed. The administration was thoroughly reorganized. The faculty was enlarged and better paid. Wilson appointed the first Jew and then the first Catholic to the faculty, and, in 1906, Princeton officially declared itself a ...
... followed brought most of them solidly to his side. Among the progressive converts was Joseph Tumulty, who became the governor's private secretary in 1911 and remained a trusted colleague for the rest of Wilson's life. Declining to stump ...
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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 |