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State of the Union Address by Woodrow Wilson

Here it is, the State of the Union Address. Every president makes them.

Kids need a quick and easy school report, trying reading these in class.

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excerpt from the book..
These addresses of President Woodrow Wilson represent only the most
recent phase of his intellectual activity. They are almost entirely
concerned with political affairs, and more specifically with defining
Americanism. It will not be forgotten, however, that the life of Mr.
Wilson as President of the United States is but a short period compared
with the whole of his public career as professor of jurisprudence,
history, and politics, as President of Princeton University, as Governor
of New Jersey, as an orator, and as a writer of many books.

Surprise has been expressed that a man, after reaching the age of fifty,
should be able to step from the "quiet" life of a teacher and author
into the resounding regions of politics; but Mr. Wilson's life as a
scholar, professor, and author was not at all quiet in the sense of
being easy or untouched with exciting chances and changes, and, in the
second place, he carried into politics the steadying ideals and the
methodical habits of his former occupation.
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The Inaugural Speeches of the President - Woodrow Wilson ... Read more

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Woodrow Wilson's rise to become President, his time as President, and his role in America's preparation for WWI are analyzed in detail. Some of his public address's of the time are provided as well. ... Read more

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President Woodrow Wilson was the first president to deliver the State of the Union Address outloud to Congress. He believed the presidency was dynamic and personal, and therefore didn't think that a written State of the Union report to Congress, as his predecessors had provided, was fitting.Wilson served as president from 1912-1920. He is credited with the establishment of the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Loan Act, but Wilson is best known for declaring war against the central powers, entering the United States into the "war to end all wars." ... Read more

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This biography was published in 1912 and takes the reader
up to the time of Presiden Wilson's first term.


From Wikepedia:

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the 28th
President of the United States.A leading intellectual
of the Progressive Era, he served as President of
Princeton Univeristy from 1902 to 1910, and then as
the Governor of New Jersey from 1922 to 1913.With
Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing
the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President
as a Democrat in 1912.

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Chapters:

I. — Background and Boyhood
II. — Boyhood in Georgia
III.— Off to College
IV. — A Student at Princeton
V. — Still Studying Law and Politics
VI.— "Professor" Wilson
VII. — Princeton's New President
VIII. — Democracy or Aristocracy
IX.— The Graduate College Contest
X. — Out of Princeton into Politics
XI. — One Year of a Progressive Governor
XII. — The Presidency Looms

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This volume was published in 1919 and is a complete story
of the life of Woodrow Wilson, teacher, historian, philosopher
and statesman, including his great speeches, letters and
messages, also a complete account of the World Peace
Conference.
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After the death of Woodrow Wilson, the US Congress held a memorial in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC commemorating this excellent president. Speeches of his life, chronicles of his career, photos taken during his time, and more are included in this first edition. This is an original resource for researchers. All writing is done by those who knew him including one article written by the ambassador from Germany who worked with him. The family shared many photographs for this publication including childhood, young adult, and elder years of this extraordinary man. After reading this book, you will sense that it encapsulated a life of phenomenal dedication to world unity and peace. He turned the presidency over to the Republicans, the stock market crashed, the US entered the Great Depression since this book was published. We've been involved in WW II, invaded numerous countries killing millions! Amazing how quickly his work went down the tubes. I'm sure that sounds all too familiar. Those who do not read history are destined to repeat it. Wilson could only hope future presidents would read his books. Sadly only a few have studied his tenets. ... Read more

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PREFACE

Woodrow Wilson prefers not to be written about. His enemies may, and of course will, say what they please, but he would like to have his friends hold their peace. He seems to think and feel that if he himself can keep silent while his foes are talking, his friends should be equally stoical. He made this plain in October, 1920, when he learned that I had slipped
away from my office at the White House one night shortly before the election and made a speech about him in a little Maryland town, Bethesda. He did not read the speech, I am sure he has never read it, but the fact that I had made any sort of speech about him, displeased him. That was one of the few times in my long association with him that I found him distinctly cold. He said nothing, but his silence was vocal.

I suspect this book will share the fate of the Bethesda speech, will not be read by Mr. Wilson. If this seems strange to those who do not know him personally, I can only say that "Woodrow Wilson is made that way." He cannot dramatize himself and shrinks from attempts of others to dramatize him. "I will not write about myself," is his invariable retort to friends who urge him to publish his own story of the Paris Peace Conference. He
craves the silence from others which he imposes upon himself. He is quite willing to leave the assessment and interpretation of himself to time and posterity. Knowing all this I have not consulted him about this book. Yet I have felt that the book should be written, because I am anxious that his contemporaries should know him as I have known him, not only as an
individual but also as the advocate of a set of great ideas and as the leader of great movements. If I can picture him, even imperfectly, as I have found him to be, both in himself and in his relationship to important events, I must believe that the portrait will correct some curious misapprehensions about him.

For instance, there is a prevalent idea, an innocently ignorant opinion in some quarters, an all too sedulously cultivated report in other quarters, that he has been uniformly headstrong, impatient of advice, his mind hermetically closed to counsel from others. This book will expose the error of that opinion; will show how, in his own words, his mind was "open and to let," how he welcomed suggestions and criticism. Indeed I fear that
unless the reader ponders carefully what I have written he may glean the opposite idea, that sometimes the President had to be prodded to action, and that I represent myself as the chief prodder.

The superficial reader may find countenance lent to this latter view in the many notes of information and advice which I addressed to the President and in the record of his subsequent actions which were more or less in accord with the counsel contained in some of these notes. If the reader deduces from this the conclusion that I was the instigator of some of the President's important policies, he will misinterpret the facts and the President's character and mental processes; if he concludes that I am trying to represent myself as the instigator he will misunderstand my motives in publishing these notes.

These motives are: first, to tell the story of my association with Mr. Wilson, and part of the record is contained in these notes; secondly, to show what liberty he allowed me to suggest and criticize; how, so far from being offended, he welcomed counsel. Having this privilege I exercised it. I conceived it as part of my duty as his secretary and friend to report to him my own interpretations of facts and public opinion as I gathered these
from newspapers and conversations, and sometimes to suggest modes of action. These notes were memoranda for my chief's consideration....... ... Read more

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This historic volume is from 1919 and discusses the role of President Woodrow Wilson at the Peace Conference in Paris after World War I.

From the book's Preface:

A public man is best exhibited at the critical
and decisive moments of his life, when all his
forces are engaged to the uttermost.As one
looks back along the troubled history of the
Peace Conference at Paris there appear clearly
five crises, five decisive battles.Each one of
them centred upon some point in President Wil-
son's leadership and arose directly out of the clash
between the President's principles and ideals
with the interests of other nations or groups of
nations.

This small book makes no pretense at giving
anything like a complete account of what hap-
pened at the Peace Conference: its sole purpose
is to present some interpretive glimpses of the
President in action, describe the most important
battles he fought there, and the kind of foes he had
to meet.The President himself can tell what he
thinks and hopes — there is no man in the world
to-day who is a greater master in the expression of
ideas and ideals — but he has no genius for telling
what he does.For this reason, Americans have
not fully understood the real problems their Pres-
ident had to face at Paris, nor recognized the real
victories he won.They do not see the forces that
broke him down : caused the desperate illness from
which he suffered so recently at Washington.It is
hoped that these brief chapters may contribute to
a clearer understanding of what the President did
at Paris.

Amherst, Massachusetts,
November 1, 1919 ... Read more

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The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.

A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would prove central to governance through the early twenty-first century, including the Federal Reserve system and the Clayton Antitrust Act; he guided the nation through World War I; and, although his advocacy in favor of joining the League of Nations proved unsuccessful, he nonetheless established a new way of thinking about international relations that would carry America into the United Nations era. Yet Wilson also steadfastly resisted progress for civil rights, while his attorney general launched an aggressive attack on civil liberties.

Even as he reminds us of the foundational scope of Wilson’s domestic policy achievements, John Milton Cooper, Jr., reshapes our understanding of the man himself: his Wilson is warm and gracious—not at all the dour puritan of popular imagination. As the president of Princeton, his encounters with the often rancorous battles of academe prepared him for state and national politics. Just two years after he was elected governor of New Jersey, Wilson, now a leader in the progressive movement, won the Democratic presidential nomination and went on to defeat Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in one of the twentieth century’s most memorable presidential elections. Ever the professor, Wilson relied on the strength of his intellectual convictions and the power of reason to win over the American people.

John Milton Cooper, Jr., gives us a vigorous, lasting record of Wilson’s life and achievements. This is a long overdue, revelatory portrait of one of our most important presidents—particularly resonant now, as another president seeks to change the way government relates to the people and regulates the economy.


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Excellent History
A superb 600 page biography of the president, from his youth through his last day.Roughly the first half deals with Wilson's youth, his teaching experience, the presidency of Princeton, and his time as Governor of New Jersey.The rest focuses on his White House years, in particular World War I and the League of Nations fight.The author has written several books on Wilson and undoubtably knows him better than anyone else.It is an interesting and lively account of a very great, but flawed, man who had a vision to reshape the world into a brighter future.It was also an age when Washington politics were still played by polite rules.On both counts the contrast to today's world is statling.But Wilson and those of his time laid the groundwork for what we now live in, and for that reason are worth studying in depth.(Full disclosure: The author is a personal friend of the reviewer.)

Excellent biography of an often misunderstood preisdent
Well written and deeply researched.If you have an interest in Wilson, the Progressive Movement amd WW 1 and its aftermath it is a great read.

A fair biography of a controversial president
Woodrow Wilson was as much of a conversation maker in his own time as he is in our own.Most recently, opinionated pundit Glenn Beck has labeled the twenty eighth president as one of the worst in U.S. History.He has even gone so far as to call Wilson "an evil man." Because current events are saturated with debate on such questions as the proper balance between the branches of government, the relationship between government and industry, and the role of the United States in the world at large, the fact that Wilson tackled the same issues nearly one hundred years ago makes this biography all the more intriguing.And although a comparison between Wilson's time and our own was likely not the intention of the author, the reader none-the-less cannot help but note the similarities between the two.

Wilson came to power after a particularly contentious election, which saw two former presidents (Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft) vying for a return to that office.As president, he directed the enactment of legislation which ultimately transformed the way our government functioned-making the executive office the center of leadership, while regulating to Congress the lesser responsibility of ironing out the details of the president's agenda.Unfortunately, because he dictated his ideas to Congress, instead of working with that body on the formation of crucial policies, Wilson ultimately failed to get Congress to pass the most important legislation of his presidency (the involvement of the U.S. in the League of Nations).Consequently, as Cooper suggests, because of this failure at the height of Wilson's influence, the outbreak of the Second World War occurred only twenty years after the end of the first.

Although he seems to criticize Congress' inability to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, Cooper is certainly not apologetic in his treatment of Wilson's public and private lives.For instance, in discussing the president's leadership style, he criticizes Wilson's reckless abandonment of responsibility in pursuit of the future-Mrs. Edith Wilson.President and Mrs. Wilson's decision to remain in office after the president's debilitating stroke receives similar scrutiny.

In the end, Cooper's study is a fair biography of a controversial president.It is worth reading, if for no other reason, because the figure at the center of its story is still relevant nearly a century after he first took office.

Aseminal one-volume biography about a controversial president
During the last days of his presidency,one famous journalist,Ray Stannard Baker, has visited Woodrow Wilson,who was recovering from a strong stroke.Baker was shocked and wrote:"A broken,ruined old man,shuffling along his left arm inert,the fingers drawn up like a claw,the left side of his face sagging frightfully.His voice is not human;it gurgles in his throat,sounds like that of an automaton.And yet his mind seems as alert as ever."
Sic transit gloria Wilson.He was indeed a very controversial president and his actions are still felt today.Suffice it to mention the Versailles Treaty which in itself caused a lot of post-war problems and is regarded as a conclave which has brought only further divisions and hardships among the many nations that were scrutinized and debated then.
Wilson was a Democrat who ascended to the White House after many years of Republican administrations,and he wanted to be remembered as a president who had worked in order to change not only his country but also the world order.It was Wilson who guided his nation through WW1 and Professor Cooper is extremely adroit in demonstrating how many efforts Wilson has made in order to avoid America's entrance into this horrible war.Volens nolens,in the end he had no choice and the barbaric submarine war conducted by the Germans pin addition to the Zimmermann telegram were the last straws which were used by the president to convene the Congress in order to declare war against Germany and its Allies.The isolationist days of America were over and now Wilson went out on a crusade to make the world safe for democracy.
Another controversial aspect discussed at length in this fascinating study is the way the subject of the League of Nations was advocated by Wilson but proved to be unsuccessful.In spite of this, Wilson managed to change the way people and policy makers would think about international relations that would carry America into the United Nations era.
On the one hand Wilson appears to be detached and cool, while on the other hand he is deeply a passionate man in his private life and Professor Cooper is superb when describing the president's private affairs, his two wives(Ellen and Edith),his lover(Peck), his children and in-laws.Quotes from the president's letters are supplied throughout the study.
Yet Wilson also vehemntly resisted progress for civil rights,while his attorney general launched an aggressive attack on civil liberties.Race relations were totally ignored.Wilson was prepared to fight his enemies and adversaries with all the means he got from his days as president at Princeton.He was the msot intellectual president the USA has had and one of his books is still regarded a milestone for those who study politics and constitutional law.It was Wilson who took care to nominate the first Jewish judge ,Louis D. brandeis,to the Supreme Court,in the era when anti-semitism played a significant role in the USA.Despite coming from a religious home,Wilson did not go to war in 1917 because he thought God was telling him to do so.As the president put it:"War is not declared in the name of God:it is a human affair entirely".Unlike Theodore Roosevelt,his greatest rival,he never compared politics to religion and preaching and had never supported the greatest moral reform crusadeof their time-Prohibition.He despised Fundamentalist manifestations.
The best part of the book is the second one where Wilson is busy in his efforts to establish peace in Europe.The negotiations had worn him out physically and emotionally and the decisions he made in the process of peace-making have stirred almost as much argument as his decision to enter the war.His famous Fourteen Points have caused a lot of controversies not only in Europe but also at home and this further drew fire from his opponents.His stroke which made him an invalide also led America to undergo the worst presidential crisis in American history.
As Professor Cooper points out, many sawor regarded Wilson as an Amerian Icarus,who perished because he flew too close to the sun.Boldness and thinking big marked the president all his life,and this charaterized him during his days at Princeton and as the governor of New Jersey.
This volume is very rich in details and is a very comprehensive combination of scholarship and narrative and shows an extraordinary but also deeply flawed president and leader who started hsi career as a dynamic reformer and ended it shortsighted and delusional.

Woodrow Wilson - PROGRESSIVE
Unfortunately this President was instrumental in making our government a monstrosity and he is one of the first progressives to create this "nanny state" in America.when are we going to see that you must take personal accountability and not expect government to "bail" you out during every difficult time. ... Read more

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Woodrow Wilson chapter from the book-Facts about the Presidents, featuring data on the president-s background, life, and administration. Here you will find comprehensive,-uniformly arranged data on birth, family, education, nomination and election, congressional sessions, cabinet and Supreme Court appointments, vice president, first lady, and more--highlighting both the personal and political. Bibliographies guide readers to additional information on the president. ... Read more

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Now in a fully updated eighth edition, "Facts About The Presidents From George Washington To Barack Obama" is an essential, core addition to every school and community library. Divided into two distinct parts, "Facts About The Presidents" offers biographical data on all 44 of America's presidents, as well as comparative data with respects to presidential chronology, family history, personal background, education and career, residence, physical characteristics, death and burial, commemoratives, and general statistics. Of special note is the section devoted to presidential elections, conventions, candidates, election returns, the vice-presidents, and more. "Facts About The Presidents" is an 816-page compendium of superbly researched, organized and presented information covering everything from presidential vetos to presidential salaries, making it an invaluable reference for students as well as an engaging browse for non-specialist general readers with an interest in those who have held the office and responsibility of presiding over the nation from its founding to the present day.
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Esteemed journalism historian James Startt has crafted an intriguing case study of the relationship between political leadership and the mass media during its early days, using the political ascendancy of Woodrow Wilson as its focus. Wilson's emergence as a major political figure coincided with the arrival of a real mass media and a more independent, less partisan style of political coverage. While most nineteenth-century presidents remained aloof from the press, Wilson understood it could no longer be ignored: "The public man who fights the daily press won't be a public man very long."
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