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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... nation. They show a mix of conservative reverence for the riches of tradition, both religious and intellectual, and a liberal openness to innovation and experiment. These qualities informed his character as scholar and president. The ...
... Nations. Though never inclined to the radical, President Wilson's progressive New Freedom achievements brought important reforms to the nation and recast the role of the presidency and the federal government in preface xv Appeal for ...
... Nations. Struggling past the crippled sentence, he managed to finish his speech with a moving call for the nation to keep faith with those fallen men who would never return from the fields of France. Startled reporters and the assembly ...
... nation. A small progressive insurgency troubled the state's Republicans, and a smaller rebel movement annoyed the Democrats. The state was dominated by machine politics that did the bidding of the many large corporations chartered there ...
... nation's destiny. In this role, Roosevelt was ready to serve. With his entry into presidential politics, Wilson migrated still farther from his earlier conservatism to a vigorous advocacy of progressive ideas. But even in 1912, Wilson's ...
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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 |