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Author Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Title Woodrow Wilson : essential writings and speeches of the scholar-president / edited and introduced by Mario R. DiNunzio
Published New York : New York University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 429 pages)
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction: Woodrow Wilson: scholar-president. -- On religion. Early religious essays ; The clergyman and the state ; The Bible and progress. -- Biographical sketches. William Earl Chatham ; John Bright ; An old master: Adam Smith ; Edmund Burke: the man and his times ; Benjamin Franklin ; Abraham Lincoln: a man of the people. -- On education and scholarship. True scholarship ; On the study of politics: address to Princeton alumni ; Mere literature ; Inaugural address as president of Princeton ; The Princeton preceptorial system ; My ideal of the true university ; On the importance of the liberal arts: address to the Association of American Universities. -- The historian. On the writing of history ; The course of American history ; The making of the nation ; States rights ; The reconstruction of the Southern states ; The significance of American history
Summary "Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings & Speeches of the Scholar-President collects Wilson's most formative work, from early essays on religion to his famous "Fourteen Points" speech, which introduced the idea of the League of Nations. Among the last of the presidents to write his own speeches, Wilson left behind works which offer impressive insights into his mind and his age."--Jacket
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-422) and index
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Subject Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 -- Religion
SUBJECT Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 fast
Wilson, Woodrow. swd
Subject Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Diplomatic relations
Politics and government
Religion
Social conditions
Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Politik
Außenpolitik
Kultur
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140446
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140515
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1913-1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140092
United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140459
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Di Nunzio, Mario R., 1936-
LC no. 2005037929
ISBN 9780814785454
081478545X
0814719848
9780814719848