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Woodrow Wilson

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December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia, The United States

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February 03, 1924

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. A devout Presbyterian and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University and then became the Governor of New Jersey in 1910. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. He proved highly successful in leading a Democratic Congress to pass major legislation that included the Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Underwood Tariff, the Federal Farm Loan Act and most notably the Federal Reserve System. Wilson was a proponent of segregation during his presidency.

Narrowly re-elected in 1916, his second term centered on...more Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. A devout Presbyterian and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University and then became the Governor of New Jersey in 1910. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. He proved highly successful in leading a Democratic Congress to pass major legislation that included the Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Underwood Tariff, the Federal Farm Loan Act and most notably the Federal Reserve System. Wilson was a proponent of segregation during his presidency.

Narrowly re-elected in 1916, his second term centered on World War I. He tried to maintain U.S. neutrality, but when the German Empire began unrestricted submarine warfare he wrote several admonishing notes to Germany, and eventually asked Congress to declare war on the Central Powers. He focused on diplomacy and financial considerations, leaving the waging of the war primarily in the hands of the military establishment. On the home front he began the first effective draft in 1917, raised billions through Liberty loans, imposed an income tax, set up the War Industries Board, promoted labor union growth, supervised agriculture and food production through the Lever Act, took over control of the railroads, and suppressed anti-war movements. He paid surprisingly little attention to military affairs, but provided the funding and food supplies that helped the Americans in the war and hastened Allied victory in 1918.

In the late stages of the war he took personal control of negotiations with Germany, especially with the Fourteen Points and the armistice. He went to Paris in 1919 to create the League of Nations and shape the Treaty of Versailles, with special attention on creating new nations out of defunct empires. Largely for his efforts to form the League, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Wilson collapsed with a debilitating stroke in 1919, as the home front saw massive strikes and race riots, and wartime prosperity turn into postwar depression. He refused to compromise with the Republicans who controlled Congress after 1918, effectively destroying any chance for ratification of the Versailles Treaty. The League of Nations was established anyway, but the U.S. never joined. Wilson's idealistic internationalism, calling for the U.S. to enter the world arena to fight for democracy, progressiveness, and liberalism, has been a highly controversial position in American foreign policy, serving as a model for "idealists" to emulate or "realists" to reject for the following century.
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	Congressional Government 2.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	On Being Human 2.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	My rating:
	History of the American People 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1901 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Constitutional Government in the United States 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	President in Love 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1981	My rating:
	War and Peace: Presidential Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers 1917-1924 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of a Scholar-President 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Vol. 4 by Woodrow Wilson, Arthur S. Link (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1968	My rating:
	The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Vol. 3 by Woodrow Wilson, Arthur S. Link (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1967	My rating:
	The New Freedom, a Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (69 books)
by Woodrow Wilson, Arthur S. Link (Editor)

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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

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“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
― Woodrow Wilson

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“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
― Woodrow Wilson

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