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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... stands on the issues of the day. Chapters 6 and 7 chart this trajectory from his early days as governor of New Jersey through the road to the White House. The Woodrow Wilson who wrote “The Government and Business” (1908), and the ...
... the Speaker of the House who could boast of a long-standing progressive record, had emerged as the leading contender. Clark had won a number of primaries and the support of William Randolf Hearst, and came into introduction 15.
... stands as the worst period of race relations in American history after the Civil War. Court-supported Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement, lynching, and race riots made a strange backdrop to the progressives' struggle for economic and ...
... Standing between these was a group of senators expressing mild reservations and another that joined Lodge in claiming they would vote for the peace treaty only if the league charter were amended to satisfy their strong reservations. As ...
... stand with folded arms, only now and then languidly issuing an order or encouraging their followers, and ever incurring the displeasure of their gracious Master by failing to carry out his orders or properly marshal and encourage his ...
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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 |