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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... legislation than he could credit to the American congressional system of the nineteenth century. These studies, it can be argued, influenced his own hands-on, activist involvement in the legislative infighting both as governor and ...
... legislative session passed a workmen's compensation law that forced employers to assume some decent obligation toward workers injured on the job. With Wilson's encouragement, progressives also passed a law allowing New Jersey ...
... legislative session, with Republicans reluctant to boost his reputation and perhaps a presidential bid. But the western tour had, in fact, already launched Wilson's presidential campaign. In July 1911, a Wilson headquarters opened in ...
... legislation, and his reward would come later. (To the outrage of conservatives, Wilson appointed Brandeis, one of the country's leading critics of big business, to the Supreme Court in 1916.) Service and status as a party giant dictated ...
... legislation with more teeth than the Sherman Act of 1890. The new president was determined to deliver on his ... legislative success unmatched by past presidents. Action on the tariff brought the first victory. Progressives, consumers ...
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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 |