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Wilson, Woodrow
(b. December 28, 1856; d. February 3, 1924) Twenty-eighth president of the United States (1913–1921); presidency marked by substantial use of military, president during World W...
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Woodrow Wilson was widely admired as a writer, a scholar, and an educator more than two decades before he became president. His first book, Congressional Government (1885), criticized the influence o...
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), twenty-eighth president of the United States, led the country into World War I and was a primary architect of the League of Nations.Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunt...
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Woodrow Wilson, the historian and political scientist, will always be eclipsed by Wilson, the president of Princeton University, the governor of New Jersey, and the twenty-eighth president of the Unit...
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Wilson was one of the foremost literary critics in the United States. A prolific writer who also produced poetry, plays, novels, journalistic nonfiction, and historical studies, Wilson was at all time...
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In the following essay, Lewis assesses various psychological interpretations of Wilson's life and career and argues that one should not assume policy necessarily follows from personality.
Any s...
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In the following essay, Thompson examines Wilson's management of World War I, praising him for his pragmatism.
Woodrow Wilson was the first American President to leave the Western Hemisphere du...
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In the following essay, Bradford presents a biographical and thematic overview of Wilson's life and career, stressing in particular the manifestations and character of Wilson's intellect...
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In the following essay, Sears examines Wilson's various historical writings and attempts to find the systematic articulation of his main political ideals.
Woodrow Wilson did not found a school ...
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In the following essay, which was originally published in the Virginia Law Review {October 1956), Corwin looks to Wilson's various writings for the origins of the changes he brought to the prac...
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In the following essay, Curti examines Wilson's writings, as well as aspects of his personal life and certain of his actions as a public figure, to determine his views on several humanistic and...
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In the following essay, Carleton examines the bases for Wilson's negative reputation among contemporary historians and critics, arguing that in most cases they are unfounded and the products of...
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Moynihan has long been a United States senator from New York and has written prolifically on many issues, including noteworthy sociological studies. In the following essay, which was originally publis...
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In the following essay, Kirwan surveys contemporary public administration theories and, finding many of them unusable and impractical, argues for a return to the ideas Wilson articulated in his writin...
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In the following essay, Cooper reassesses Wilson's tenure as an academic, viewing this time not so much as the mere nascency of his political career—as most commentators have—and ...
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I believe that President Wilson was a great president. My reasoning for this is that he consistently fought for peace in the world. A famous slogan from his first run as president was "He kept us out ...
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As great leaders have come and gone in different eras, all of them understood that along with their authority came grave responsibility. Such was the case with our twenty-eight president, Woodrow Wi...
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Hofstadter describes Roosevelt as a conservative as progressive and Wilson as conservative as liberal. Both men began their political careers with conservative principles but changed their views as t...
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Until 1917 when the United States entered into World War I, President Wilson held on to his foreign policy called "moral diplomacy", which called for the United States to remain neutral and not invol...
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Woodrow Wilson had limited success in implementing his nation's demands at the Paris Peace Conference. Wilson's requests, on behalf of the United States of America, was to secure acceptance of the Fou...
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Woodrow Wilson was a lawyer, an educator, and a politician. He was an advocate for reform in education and at all levels of government. He was determined to stay out of World War I during his first...
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Woodrow Wilson was a lawyer, an educator, and a politician. He was an advocate for reform in education and at all levels of government. He was determined to stay out of World War I during his first...
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