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WILSON, WOODROW

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WILSON, WOODROW
(1856 - 1924) Twenty-eighth President of the United States who passed sweeping reform laws, gave women the right to vote, and led the United States through World War I setting the ground work for the League of Nations. Fine content A.L.S. as professor of law at Princeton, 4pp. 8vo., Princeton, Oct. 10, 1894 to Prof. E. C. Sickles in Des Moines. Wilson sets forth the books he deems it most important to read, in part: ""àIn respect of the field of English literature I hardly know what advice to give, except that every man ought to be familiaràwith those great masters of our tongue who, like Shakespeare, Milton, Burke, Wordsworth, and Tennyson, seem to hold in all their thought the essential character of the race: its point of view and its dominant passionsàit is always best to begin with a few leading books and then read the books they suggestà"". Wilson goes on to suggest Bagehot's Physics and Politics, Green's Short History of the English People, Freeman's Growth of the English Constitution, Burke's Select Speeches, and de Toqueville's Democracy in America, among others, and notes that the books should be read in the order he has given. Very light dampstain at right margin, folds and light toning, a few stray bits of tape at corners, overall very good.