{"id":6901,"date":"2017-04-22T00:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2017-04-21T21:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T02:31:17","slug":"woodrow-wilson-ambitious-aspirations-and-problematic-political-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6901","title":{"rendered":"WOODROW WILSON: AMBITIOUS ASPIRATIONS AND PROBLEMATIC POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Though it is a little over 200 pages Barry Hankins has packed quite a bit into this little\/big book.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is much to learn from this fine book, but I will limit myself to three things.<\/strong><\/p>\n

First, Hankins does a fine job of demonstrating the impossibility of having good Christian practice when it is shorn of Christian doctrine.\u00a0 Wilson was a learned man, but terribly naive when it came to thinking there could be solid ethics without solid theology.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second, there is fascinating background on Princeton and other educational matters.\u00a0 Wilson lived during a pivotal point in American education.\u00a0 The Johns Hopkins University, where Wilson did his PhD, was the first American school to adopt the German model of specialization.\u00a0 It was a seismic change for the American educational landscape.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Last, I love to read biographies where you learn some truly surprising things about the subject and the times he\/she lived in.\u00a0 Hankins does a nice job here.\u00a0 Among other things, you will probably be surprised to find out how fun and light-hearted Wilson could be.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are looking for a biography on Wilson that covers the full man, but isn’t unduly long, this is a terrific choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Woodrow-Wilson-Ruling-Spiritual-President\/dp\/0198718373 Though it is a little over 200 pages Barry Hankins has packed quite a bit into this little\/big book. There is much to learn from this fine book, but I will limit myself to three things. First, Hankins does a fine job of demonstrating the impossibility of having good Christian practice when it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-book-review","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6903,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions\/6903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}