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Woodrow Wilson - Princeton to the Presidency (Paperback)
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Woodrow Wilson - Princeton to the Presidency (Paperback)
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Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he
spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate,
then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the
helm of Princeton-where he enjoyed four productive years followed
by four years of wrangling and intense acrimony-reveal much about
the kind of man he was and how he earned a reputation as a fearless
crusader. This engrossing book focuses on how Wilson's Princeton
years influenced the ideas and worldview he later applied in
politics. His career in the White House, W. Barksdale Maynard
shows, repeated with uncanny precision his Princeton experiences.
The book recounts how Wilson's inspired period of building,
expansion, and intellectual fervor at Princeton deteriorated into
one of the most famous academic disputes in American history. His
battle to abolish elitist eating clubs and establish a more
egalitarian system culminated in his defeat and dismissal, and the
ruthlessness of his tactics alienated even longtime friends. So
extreme was his behavior, some historians have wondered whether he
suffered a stroke. Maynard sheds new light on this question, on
Wilson's temper, and on other aspects of his strengths and
shortcomings. The book provides an unprecedented inside view of a
hard-fighting president-a man who tried first to remake a
university and then to remake the world.
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