Woodrow Wilson : Princeton to the presidency / W. Barksdale Maynard.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-378) and index.

Pt. 1. Undergraduate and Professor, 1875-1902 -- Ch. 1. The Debater -- Ch. 2. The Study of Books and Men -- Ch. 3. Who Shall Show Us the Way? -- Pt. 2. New Princeton President, 1902-7 -- Ch. 4. Like a New Prime Minister -- Ch. 5. Adding a Thousand Years of History -- Ch. 6. Fifty Stiffs to Make Us Wise -- Pt. 3. The Quad Fight, 1907-8 -- Ch. 7. The Pleasantest Country Club in America -- Ch. 8. The Quad Plan -- Ch. 9. Aristocracy of the Stomach -- Ch. 10. The Brutus of the Conspiracy -- Ch. 11. I Am a Good Fighter, Gentlemen -- Pt. 4. The Battle of Princeton, 1908-10 -- Ch. 12. We Must See Who Is Master -- Ch. 13. The Owl, the Eel, and the Soap-Fat Man -- Ch. 14. Licked by Ten Millions -- Pt. 5. Governor, President - and Aftermath, 1910-24 -- Ch. 15. Kicked Upstairs -- Ch. 16. Big Three Election -- Ch. 17. The Loneliest Place in the World -- Ch. 18. The Old College Life Is All Shot to Hell -- Ch. 19. And After That the Dark.

"Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent twenty-five years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then as professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton - where he enjoyed four productive years followed by four years of wrangling and intense acrimony - reveal much about the kind of man he was and how he earned a reputation as a fearless crusader. This engrossing book focuses on how Wilson's Princeton years influenced the ideas and worldview he later applied in politics. His career in the White House, W. Barksdale Maynard shows, repeated with uncanny precision his Princeton experiences."--BOOK JACKET.