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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... The State 266 The English Constitution 282 Democracy 296 Presidential Address to the American Political Science Association: The Law and the Facts 304 6 New Jersey Politics 313 Government and Business 313 Conservatism: viii contents.
... constitution and drew liberally from it, including the idea that the British system brought greater efficiency to government than the American, which tended to scatter responsibility and diminish accountability. Wilson was unimpressed ...
... Constitutional Government in the United States, and revealed some development in his thought. Observing Theodore Roosevelt in office was possibly influential, for he now saw more potential for presidential leadership and expressed more ...
... constitutional with the recent ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment. The tax provision levied a 1 percent tax on incomes over $4,000, the rate rising to a maximum 6 percent on incomes over $500,000. In 1913 this left most of the ...
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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 |