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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... opinion in the United States strongly opposed war. Wilson responded. On June 30, 1916, he told a press gathering in New York that force by a strong country against a weak neighbor could not “reflect distinction upon the United States ...
... they could to avoid American casualties. There was no war hysteria in the United States, but now public opinion became more sharply anti-German as the Lusitania's sinking seemed to confirm the claims of 28 introduction.
... opinion seemed to support the president. The British, too, sparked Wilson's anger and tested his patience with violations of American neutral rights. They blacklisted American businesses, which they claimed were trading with the Central ...
... opinion might pressure the Senate to ratify; he needed time for opposition to build. The chairman ordered that the entire peace treaty be read aloud in the committee chamber, a pointless exercise that took two weeks with a clerk reading ...
... possibility was clearly past. When the election came, Wilson, against all informed opinion, insisted that Democrat James Cox would win because of the league issue. Warren Harding swept the election, and the introduction 39.
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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 |