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In The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson, James Axtell brings together essays by eight leading historians and one historically minded political scientist to examine the long, formative academic phase of Wilson’s career and its connection to his relatively brief tenure in politics. Together, the essays provide a greatly revised picture of Wilson’s whole career and a deeply nuanced understanding of the evolution of his educational, political, and social philosophy and policies, the ordering of his values and priorities, and the seamless link between his academic and political lives.

The contributors shed light on Wilson’s unexpected rise to the governorship of New Jersey and the presidency, and how he prepared for elective office through his long study of government and the practice of academic politics, which he deemed no less fierce than that of Washington. In both spheres he was enormously successful, propelling a string of progressive reforms through faculty and legislative forums. Only after he was beset by health problems and events beyond his control did he fail to push his academic and postwar agendas to their logical, idealistic conclusions.

Contributors: James Axtell, College of William and Mary * Victoria Bissell Brown, Grinnell College * John Milton Cooper Jr., University of Wisconsin * Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University * W. Bruce Leslie, SUNY–Brockport * Adam R. Nelson, University of Wisconsin * Mark R. Nemec, Forrester Research * John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky * Trygve Throntveit, Harvard University

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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Frontispiece
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-8
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  1. The Educational Vision of Woodrow Wilson
  2. pp. 9-48
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  1. Woodrow Wilson on Liberal Education for Statesmanship, 1890–1910
  2. pp. 49-73
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  1. Princeton in the National Spotlight: Woodrow Wilson in the Era of the University Builders, 1880–1910
  2. pp. 74-96
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  1. Dreaming Spires in New Jersey: Anglophilia in Wilson’s Princeton
  2. pp. 97-121
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  1. Conservative among Progressives: Woodrow Wilson in the Golden Age of American Women’s Higher Education
  2. pp. 122-168
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  1. Politics and Wilson’s Academic Career
  2. pp. 169-184
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  1. The Unappreciated Legacy: Wilson, Princeton, and the Ideal of the American State
  2. pp. 185-206
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  1. The Higher Education of Woodrow Wilson: Politics as Social Inquiry
  2. pp. 207-243
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  1. Afterword
  2. pp. 244-250
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  1. Suggested Reading
  2. pp. 251-256
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 257-260
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 261-268
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