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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... was prospering, and the nation was still at peace. But reelection was not to be an easy ride. Outside the South, many more voters were registered Republicans than Democrats, and the Republican party was whole again. If most 30 introduction.
... whole Church, whether Protestant or Catholic, an opportunity to supply what society is looking for; that is, a clear standard of moral measurement, a standard of revaluation, a standard of re-assessment, of men and affairs. When I ask ...
... whole literature in the Bible? It is not one book, but a score of books. Do you realize what literature is? I am sometimes sorry to see the great classics of our English literature used in the schools as textbooks, because I am afraid ...
... whole-souled ardor, with keen enthusiasm, to carry out great principles in all their integrity. Such a policy is always admirable in the abstract, but, in practice, is seldom safe. In a free government, founded upon public opinion, the ...
... whole classes of society, that broad and generous ideas of governmental polity find their firmest rootage and their sunniest seasons. It were next to impossible that such principles should find their earliest acceptance in agricultural ...
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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 |