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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 206. Chapters: Woodrow Wilson, Alger Hiss, Michael Bloomberg, Rachel Carson, Gertrude Stein, Floyd Cunningham, Eva Moskowitz, Elwood Haynes, John Dewey, Gil Scott-Heron, Madeleine Albright, Samuel T. Francis, Francis Andersen, Timothy Geithner, Michael Steele, Bob Marshall (wilderness activist), Otto F. Kernberg, Spiro Agnew, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Steven Milloy, Ray Hyman, Thorstein Veblen, Menachem Z. Rosensaft, Bandar bin Sultan, Michael Merzenich, Leo Wolman, Josiah Royce, Michael D. Griffin, Charles Herty, Sergey Degayev, Orval Hobart Mowrer, John Stone Stone, John Woodland Hastings, Stafford L. Warren, Gavan McDonell, Cordwainer Smith, Richard A. Cash, Mark S. Smith, Sheila Dixon, Andrew P. Harris, Richard Cassilly, Jim Leach, Thomas Dixon, Jr., Harry Tiebout, Albert Ritchie, Thomas Carlos Mehen, Lyman James Briggs, Frederick Jackson Turner, John Gresham Machen, Wes Craven, John Archibald Wheeler, Richard Axel, C. J. Cherryh, Iris Chang, Ernesto Bustamante. Excerpt: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. Running against Republican incumbent William Howard Taft, Socialist Party of America candidate Eugene V. Debs, and former President Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. In his first term as President Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms. Historian John M. Cooper argues that, in his first term, Wilson successfully pushed a legislative agenda that few presidents have equaled, and remained unmatched up until the New Deal. This agenda included the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and an income tax. Child labor was curtailed by the Keating-Owen Act of 1916, but the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1918. He also had Congress pass the Adamson Act, which imposed an 8-hour workday for railroads. Wilson, at first unsympathetic, became a major advocate for women's suffrage after public pressure convinced him that to oppose woman's suffrage was politically unwise. Although Wilson promised African Americans 'fair dealing...in advancing the interests of their race in the United States" the Wilson administration implemented a policy of racial segregation for federal employees. Narrowly re-elected in 1916, he had full control of American entry into World War I, and his second term centered on World War I and the subsequent peace treaty negotiations in Paris. He based his re-election campaign around the slogan, "He kept us out of war", but U.S. neutrality was challenged in early 1917 when the German Empire began unrestricted submarine warfare despite repeated strong warnings and tried to enlist Mexico