Kendrick A. Clements (born February 7, 1939) is a retired history professor and author in

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. He wrote books about U.S. president

Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only History of the Democratic Party (United States), Democrat to serve as president during the Prog ...

, who spent some of his childhood in South Carolina, as well as papers and books on

James F. Byrnes James Francis Byrnes ( ; May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch ...

William Jennings Bryan William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American lawyer, orator, and politician. He was a dominant force in the History of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, running three times as the party' ...

, and

Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and ...

. He retired from the

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in 2006 and has emeritus status at the school. Clements received a B.A. from

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and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the

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. He was interviewed for the 1997 film ''Woodrow Wilson: Reluctant Warrior''. He discussed one of his books on Wilson on

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April 16, 2013. Clements wrote that Wilson, who segregated federal workers in the United States, "had none of the crude, vicious racism of James K. Vardaman or Benjamin R. Tillman, but he was insensitive to African-American feelings and aspirations." Clements wrote for a

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website addressing Wilson's legacy and the university's buildings and programs named for Wilson. A ''

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'' writeup described one of his books on Wilson as "not very urgent or thought-provoking." His book on Herbert Hoover's environmental policies was described as exhaustive in a review. Nancy Unger gave the book a mostly favorable review.

Bibliography

*''James F. Byrnes and the Origins of the Cold War'', editor (1982) *''William Jennings Bryan, Missionary Isolationist'' (1982) *''Woodrow Wilson, World Statesman'' (1987; revised ed. 1999; electronic ed. 2014); *''The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson'' (1992) *''Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life'' (2000) *''The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918-1928'' (2010) *''Woodrow Wilson'', co-authored with Eric A. Cheezum

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