Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-presidentNYU Press, 2006 - 429 páginas 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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 71
... influenced several generations of students and scholars and remains useful in understanding the perspective of his contemporaries in a fruitful and productive period of American scholarship. In politics, Wilson journeyed from a rather ...
... 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, and university president he thought ...
... influenced his own hands-on, activist involvement in the legislative infighting both as governor and president. When Wilson became more active in politics, even while still president of Princeton, he underwent a gradual transformation ...
... influenced much. Another great shaping force in Wilson's life was his religious faith. The Wilsons subscribed to a moderately liberal reformed Protestantism rather than the more fundamentalist evangelical movement. Given the intense ...
... influenced by Calvinist doctrine, including a persistent belief in predestination. For Wilson the world was ordered by ... influence of his religious faith on his ideas and motives. His politics and his own sense of purpose were in part ...
Contenido
1 | |
On Religion | 41 |
Biographical Sketches | 60 |
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 |