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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... seem to have been models for Wilson and influential in his own development. From the start of his academic career, Wilson was concerned not only with the content but also with the process of a sound education. As a student, professor ...
... tension between the two men. In fact, Wilson so admired Turner's work that he tried to bring the historian into the Princeton faculty. His effort was spurned by the board of trustees on what to a later age seems introduction 5.
... seems the startling ground that Turner was a Unitarian and therefore unsuitable for Presbyterian Princeton. Wisconsin and later Harvard became the benefactors of Princeton's orthodoxy. Wilson worked so hard that his health suffered. In ...
... seem that impartiality should have accompanied neutrality: no trade with Germany, no trade with the Allies. Aside from the economic cost, such a policy would have handed victory to Germany in a matter of months. The Ger- mans could draw ...
... seem expedient or politic, involves a support of untruth or injustice. And let no statesman think that by silence or ... seems to be wrapped up in his wicked calling. We find ourselves instinctively admiring the bandit or highwayman who ...
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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 |