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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... ab- solute power created a nightmare of tragic miscalculations and errors. On the other hand, particularly in regard to Mexico, Wilson was generally wiser than his lieutenants, restrained at crisis moments, and ultimately 26 introduction.
... regard to Mexico and the war in Europe as cowardly. Democrats charged Hughes with courting anti-British and pro-German votes. Wilson's aides worried about rumors circulating about an illicit affair between Wilson and Mary Allen Peck, a ...
... to be judged by these moral standards which pay no regard to rank or birth or conditions, but which assess every man according to his single and individual value. That is the meaning of this charter of the 56 0n religion.
... regard him as high among the greatest statesmen of a great race. And yet his errors were many and grave. They were, however, such as are incident upon a policy whose authors seek, with whole-souled ardor, with keen enthusiasm, to carry ...
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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 |