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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... Mere Literature” in his book published in 1896 set out his educational philosophy. His intention was to create a modern academic design that could also preserve a respect for tradition. Contrary to the trend of the late nineteenth ...
... merely recalling the formulas, or shouting the slogans, of past campaigns and past transactions. The Nation is not looking over its shoulder, nor acting in retrospect; it has its eyes on the future. And because of this, the Nation has ...
... merely a fraction of modern society, inextricably associated with others in the conduct of business, and dominated by corporate responsibility. It is impossible that he should exercise, except within a very narrow circle, independent ...
... mere subtlety, a mere word-quibble. He saw and appreciated only the general features of the struggle. Its object was none other than the severance of a union which he saw was essential to the prosperity of the South biographical sketches ...
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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 |