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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... served as president of the United States. With a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, he launched a career in history and political science that carried him to distinction in university circles and won wide notice outside the academy ...
... served to prepare him for admission to Princeton in 1875. Both institutions were Presbyterian in the composition of their boards of trustees and of much of the faculty, at a time when such affiliation was taken seriously by American ...
... serve the nation, supplying enlightened men of broad learning. “The managing minds of the world . . . must be equipped for a mastery whose chief characteristic is adaptability, play, an initiative which transcends the bounds of mere ...
... serve the Democrats well. Wilson had appeal. His national stature and solidly conservative views caught the attention of Democratic leaders, and two party regulars, George B. M. Harvey and James Smith Jr., decided that Wilson could lead ...
... served as one of the managers of the presidential campaign, joined the administration as secretary of the Treasury, and married Wilson's daughter Eleanor. On a trip to Texas in October, Wilson met House for the first time. There was an ...
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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 |