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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... ideas to work at Princeton with the vigor of a dedicated reformer. These ideas continue to resonate today in debates about education and the role of the academy in the face of postmodern revisionism. Wilson's scholarly analysis of ...
... ideas, his experience as university president, and his own sense of mission guided his political career in times of peace and war. His voluminous writings across a large range of subjects give us uncommon access to the mind of this ...
... ideas about some of the worrisome changes emerging in American higher education, and wrote often as an advocate of his vision of learning. That vision prescribed not only preparation for vocation, but the cultivation of a breadth of ...
... ideas. Where necessary for appropriate focus and length, editing has been done with care to retain the original sense and spirit of his thought. Deletions are indicated by ellipses [...] for internal elisions and asterisks ...
... ideas about women, who should be honored and protected and should not demean themselves by engaging in practical ... idea of black civil rights, he believed black Americans ought not to seek “social equality” with whites. Through 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 |