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Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency

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Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the US, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and in the end as president. His experiences on the helm of Princeton—where he enjoyed four productive years followed by four years of wrangling and intense acrimony—reveal much about the type of man he was once and how he earned a reputation as a fearless crusader. This engrossing book makes a speciality of how Wilson’s Princeton years influenced the ideas and worldview he later applied in politics. His career within 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 some of the 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 once his behavior, some historians have wondered whether he suffered a stroke. Maynard sheds new light in 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 after which to remake the world.


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