Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of NationsCambridge University Press, 24. 9. 2001. - 454 страница The fight over the League of Nations at the end of World War I was one of the great political debates of the American twentieth century. President Woodrow Wilson, himself a key architect of the League, was uncompromising in his belief that the United States would rise to a position of leadership in the peaceful union of states that he had envisaged. A masterful politician and distinguished theorist, Wilson was unprepared for the persuasiveness of his opponents and the potency of their argument. Though he struggled tirelessly in the summer of 1919 to drum popular and political support for the League, he could not keep pace: he suffered a disabling stroke in July. The United States Senate ultimately rejected membership in the League, and the League failed to realize its diplomatic potential. In this engaging narrative, John Cooper relates the story of Wilson's battle for the League with sympathy, accuracy, and a deep understanding of the times. John Milton Cooper, Jr., is E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and served as a Fulbright Professor at Moscow University. His previous books inlcude The Warrior and the Priest (Harvard University Press, 1985) and Pivotal Decades (Norton, 1992). Cooper is Chief Historian of the forthcoming biography of Woodrow Wilson on American Experience, which will be broadcast by PBS in 2002. |
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... member- ship in the League , and the League failed to realize its diplomatic poten- tial . In this engaging narrative , John Cooper relates the story of Wilson's battle for the League with sympathy , accuracy , and a deep understanding ...
... member- ship in the League , and the League failed to realize its diplomatic poten- tial . In this engaging narrative , John Cooper relates the story of Wilson's battle for the League with sympathy , accuracy , and a deep understanding ...
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... membership in the League of Nations , President Woodrow Wilson called the conflict " this great fight for the League of Nations . " Others soon shortened Wilson's phrase to " the League fight . " 1 Up to a point , this name aptly ...
... membership in the League of Nations , President Woodrow Wilson called the conflict " this great fight for the League of Nations . " Others soon shortened Wilson's phrase to " the League fight . " 1 Up to a point , this name aptly ...
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... membership in the 3. Since Wilson's time , the Twenty - fifth Amendment has been adopted to deal with presidential incapacity . There is considerable disagreement about the adequacy of this amendment to deal with cases of presidential ...
... membership in the 3. Since Wilson's time , the Twenty - fifth Amendment has been adopted to deal with presidential incapacity . There is considerable disagreement about the adequacy of this amendment to deal with cases of presidential ...
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... membership , self - styled " international- ists , " held no monopoly on such idealism . Some of their most fervent opponents , who were often tagged as " isolationists , " painted equally glowing pictures of world uplift . Other ...
... membership , self - styled " international- ists , " held no monopoly on such idealism . Some of their most fervent opponents , who were often tagged as " isolationists , " painted equally glowing pictures of world uplift . Other ...
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... membership . At the other end stood those who demanded outright rejection and insisted on the largest possible freedom of national action . The opposite poles of thought on this question produced nearly all of the most eloquent argu ...
... membership . At the other end stood those who demanded outright rejection and insisted on the largest possible freedom of national action . The opposite poles of thought on this question produced nearly all of the most eloquent argu ...
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To the Draft Covenant | 10 |
Round Robin and Revision | 55 |
Long Hot Summer | 109 |
IllFated Journey | 158 |
Stroke and Stalemate | 198 |
Showdown | 234 |
Last Chance | 283 |
Defeat | 330 |
Parting Shots and Echoes | 376 |
Breaking the Heart of the World | 412 |
A Note on Sources | 435 |
441 | |
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66th Cong amendments American Arch Johnson Article Ashurst Baker Beveridge Bonsal Borah Brandegee compromise Congressional Record consent debate declared Democratic senators Democrats Draft Covenant earlier Edith Wilson entry favor Follette foreign policy Foreign Relations Committee Grayson Diary Henry Henry Cabot Lodge Hiram Johnson Hitchcock ibid Irreconcilables isolationist Johnson July June Karger to Taft Kellogg Knox La Follette Lansing later leaders League fight league idea League membership League of Nations Lenroot letter Library of Congress Link Lodge Papers Lodge reservations Lodge's McAdoo McCumber meeting memorandum ment mild reservationists Monroe Doctrine obligation Papers of Wilson party peace conference peace treaty political president president's pro-League ratification Ray Stannard Baker Reed reel reporters Republican Republican senators resolution Roosevelt Root secretary Sept stroke Taft Papers tion told Tumulty United votes Walsh White House William Wilson speech Woodrow Wilson York World