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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... guided his action to the end of his life. His father was a strong, sometimes domineering figure in his life for many years, and the shy boy worked hard to please him. But Wilson 1 introduction Woodrow Wilson: Scholar-President.
... action, would change in the new century when he developed greater appreciation for more progressive economic and political reform. By 1912 his political posture was very different from the conservatism of his earlier thought. But his ...
... action, especially by the states, than he would earlier have conceded. But Wilson's political tilt still reflected the rather conservative posture he struck in the 1890s. He opposed the federal regulation of big business, calling it ...
... action, business regulation, support for an income tax, popular election of senators, banking reform, and an exemption for labor from the injunction provisions of the Sherman Act, which was aimed at trusts but often hit unions ...
... action on three issues of central concern to progressives: tariff reductions, banking reform, and antitrust legislation with more teeth than the Sherman Act of 1890. The new president was determined to deliver on his promises. He threw ...
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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 |