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The Study of Administration | Teaching American History

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In addition to serving as the twenty-eighth president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was a lawyer, a governor of New Jersey, an academic, and a university president.

Edited and introduced by Jason Jividen Introduction In addition to serving as the twenty-eighth president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was a lawyer, a governor of New Jersey, an academic, and a university president. The only political scientist to have been elected to the White House, Wilson was a widely influential progressive scholar prior to his tenure in national politics. Among his most famous academic works is the essay excerpted below, “The Study of Administration.” Wilson here argued that the science of public administration was key to the progressives’ attempt to s

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