Princeton University Press The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 17 – 1907–1908

Product Description This massive collection includes all important letters, speeches, interviews, press conferences, and public papers on Woodrow Wilson. The volumes make available as never before the materials essential to understanding Wilson's personality, his intellectual, religious, and political development, and his careers as educator, writer, orator, and statesman. The Papers not only reveal the private and public man, but also the era in which he lived, making the series additionally valuable to scholars in various fields of history between the 1870's and the 1920's. Review ... an unprecedented illumination of Wilson's activities and ideas.-- "The Journal of American History" ... Arthur Link and his associates ... set a high standard indeed both for productivity and editorial excellence.-- "North Carolina Historical Review" An essential purchase for college libraries.-- "Library Journal" Every college library should plan to acquire the entire series.-- "Choice" From the Back Cover This volume opens as Wilson returned home from Bermuda in 1907 and delivered a major series of lectures on American constitutional law at Columbia University. At Princeton, he conferred frequently with Ralph Adams Cram, the new supervising architect of the university; carried forward his plans to enlarge the facilities and staff of the scientific departments; and became involved in the first stage of a controversy with Andrew F. West over the location of a residential graduate college.