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Features a biography of the twenty-eighth president of the United States including his childhood, education at John Hopkins University, his early career as a lawyer, professor, president of Princeton University, and key events from President Wilson's administration.
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First he was known as Tommy, then Woodrow, and eventually, Mr. President. Born on December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia, Thomas Woodrow Wilson was a born leader. He was the president of Princeton University, served as governor of New Jersey after that, and was then elected president of the United States. But not everything was so easy for Wilson. He was ahead of his time in wanting a League of Nations after World War I to help prevent another war...
10) Wilson
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One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of his century, and one of the most enigmatic. From the scholar-president who ushered the country through its first great world war to the man of intense passion and turbulence, from the idealist determined to make the world "safe for democracy" to the stroke-crippled leader who incapacity was among the century's greatest secrets, this is...
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Follows the life of Woodrow Wilson from his childhood in Virginia through his two terms as the twenty-eighth president of the United States and into his post-White House years, and includes photographs and illustrations, a time line and glossary, articles on key events that influenced Wilson, and other reference materials.
12) Woodrow Wilson
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Profiles the United States president who grew up during the Civil War and brought the nation into the first World War, yet was called the "president of peace."
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"Between January and July 1919, after "the war to end all wars," men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and wildly idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that...
20) Woodrow Wilson
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Perspectives presents a biography of Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States. He led the nation through the terrible days of World War I, and when it ended, he gave the world his plan for a League of Nations.