Woodrow Wilson Summary

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... Read more

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... Read more

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. An... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more