TY  - GEN
T1  - Woodrow Wilson : Princeton to the presidency
A1  - Maynard, W. Barksdale (William Barksdale)
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn651876051
AB  - 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.
OP  - 392
CN  - E767.1 .M39 2008
SN  - 9780300142709
SN  - 0300142706
SN  - 9780300136043
SN  - 0300136048
SN  - 1282352261
SN  - 9781282352261
KW  - Wilson, Woodrow, : 1856-1924.
KW  - Wilson, Woodrow, : 1856-1924 : Political and social views.
KW  - Princeton University : Biography.
KW  - Wilson, Woodrow, : 1856-1924
KW  - Princeton University
KW  - Wilson, Woodrow.
KW  - Princeton <NJ> / Universität.
KW  - Presidents : United States : Biography.
KW  - College presidents : New Jersey : Princeton : Biography.
KW  - College teachers : New Jersey : Princeton : Biography.
KW  - College students : New Jersey : Princeton : Biography.
KW  - Présidents et recteurs d'université : New Jersey : Princeton : Biographies.
KW  - Étudiants : New Jersey : Princeton : Biographies.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Historical.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - College presidents
KW  - College students
KW  - College teachers
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Presidents
KW  - New Jersey : Princeton
KW  - United States
KW  - collective biographies.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -