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WILSON, Woodrow (1856-1924), President. Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [1885]. 8o, blue pebbled cloth, spine stamped in gilt, prior owner's Ex Libris stamp on the front pastedown, some penciled underscoring and marginal notations.
FIRST EDITION of the future President's FIRST BOOK. SIGNED ON THE FRONT FLYLEAF, "Woodrow Wilson, Princeton 12 Feby '07." The basis for his Ph. D. dissertation from Johns Hopkins, a somewhat iconoclastic study of the differences between the ideal and reality in American politics. The Constitutional blueprint had one version of how government should operate; the leaders of Congress quite another: "That great federal charter," Wilson writes, "has been alternately violated by its friends and defended by its enemies." The successful reception of Congressional Government and Wilson's other publications, won him a professorship at Princeton in 1890 and he became the university's president in 1902. But Wilson itched to practice politics and not just study it.
FIRST EDITION of the future President's FIRST BOOK. SIGNED ON THE FRONT FLYLEAF, "Woodrow Wilson, Princeton 12 Feby '07." The basis for his Ph. D. dissertation from Johns Hopkins, a somewhat iconoclastic study of the differences between the ideal and reality in American politics. The Constitutional blueprint had one version of how government should operate; the leaders of Congress quite another: "That great federal charter," Wilson writes, "has been alternately violated by its friends and defended by its enemies." The successful reception of Congressional Government and Wilson's other publications, won him a professorship at Princeton in 1890 and he became the university's president in 1902. But Wilson itched to practice politics and not just study it.