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Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe [Audiobook]


Free Download Larry Wolff, Rick Adamson (Narrator), "Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe"
English | ASIN: B085CNCYCK | 2020 | M4B@32 kbps | ~10:40:00 | 145 MB
At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson’s influence on the remapping of borders was profound.
But despite his deep involvement in the region’s geopolitical transformation, President Wilson never set eyes on Eastern Europe, and never traveled to a single one of the eastern lands whose political destiny he so decisively influenced. Eastern Europe was reinvented on the map of the early 20th century with the crucial intervention of an American president who deeply invested his political and emotional energies in lands that he would never visit.

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The Making of Princeton University From Woodrow Wilson to the Present


Free Download James Axtell, "The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present"
English | ISBN: 0691126860 | 2006 | 688 pages | PDF | 54 MB
In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions. But Wilson had a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse. The Making of Princeton University tells, for the first time, the story of how the University adapted and updated Wilson’s vision to transform itself into the prestigious institution it is today.

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