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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

Wilson, Woodrow. An American statesman, educator and author; born at Staunton, VA, Dec. 28, 1856; died in 1924. He was President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. He wrote much on political and literary topics for the magazines and reviews. His books are: ‘Congressional Government: A Study of American Politics’ (1885), a work popular at home and much used by foreign publicists; ‘The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics’ (1889); ‘Division and Reunion,’ in ‘Epochs of American History’ (1893); and ‘A History of the American People’ (1902); ‘Constitutional Government in the United States’ (1908); ‘The New Freedom’ (1913). President of Princeton University, 1902–1910. Elected President of the U.S., 1912; reëlected 1916. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).