The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War IBasic Books, 5. 8. 2008. - 352 страница The political history of the American experience in World War I is a story of conflict and bungled intentions that begins in an era dedicated to progressive social reform and ends in the Red Scare and Prohibition. Thomas Fleming tells this story through the complex figure of Woodrow Wilson, the contradictory president who wept after declaring war, devastated because he knew it would destroy the tolerance of the American people, but who then suppressed freedom of speech and used propaganda to excite America into a Hun-hating mob. This is tragic history: inexperienced American military leaders drove their troops into gruesome slaughters; progressive politics were put on hold in America; an idealistic president's dreams were crushed because of his own negligence. Wilson's inability to convince Congress to ratify U.S. membership in the League of Nations was one of the most poignant failures in the history of the American presidency, but even more heartrending were Wilson's concessions to his bitter allies in the Treaty of Versailles. In exchange for Allied support of the League of Nations, he allowed an unfair peace treaty to be signed, a treaty that played no small role in the rise of National Socialism and the outbreak of World War II. Thomas Fleming has once again created a masterpiece of narrative American history. This incomparable portrait shows how Wilson sacrificed his noble vision to megalomania and single-mindedness, while paying homage to him as a visionary whose honorable spirit continues to influence Western politics. |
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... Colonel Edward M. House (his title was an honorary one, bestowed by a Texas governor), had departed in another car at 8:10.Their joint destination was the U.S. Capitol, where Wilson was to give the most important speech of his life.1 It ...
... Colonel Edward M. House (his title was an honorary one, bestowed by a Texas governor), had departed in another car at 8:10.Their joint destination was the U.S. Capitol, where Wilson was to give the most important speech of his life.1 It ...
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... Colonel House. Loath to lose this heartbreaking image of a tormented chief executive, some Wilson biographers have transferred Cobb's White House visit back two weeks to mid-March, when Wilson made the decision to go to war, after the ...
... Colonel House. Loath to lose this heartbreaking image of a tormented chief executive, some Wilson biographers have transferred Cobb's White House visit back two weeks to mid-March, when Wilson made the decision to go to war, after the ...
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... House, the tense president told Colonel House he was annoyed to discover there was still no word from Congress.What was taking the legislators so long to get organized? He would put off the speech until tomorrow if he could not give it ...
... House, the tense president told Colonel House he was annoyed to discover there was still no word from Congress.What was taking the legislators so long to get organized? He would put off the speech until tomorrow if he could not give it ...
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... Colonel House had become more than Wilson's closest friend. He was an alter ego whom the president needed and used constantly.A wealthy progressive Democrat who had helped elect two Texas governors, in 1911 House had chosen Wilson as ...
... Colonel House had become more than Wilson's closest friend. He was an alter ego whom the president needed and used constantly.A wealthy progressive Democrat who had helped elect two Texas governors, in 1911 House had chosen Wilson as ...
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... Colonel House in his fictional daydreams—or Woodrow Wilson in his pursuit of the ideal—imagined.22. VIII. In the White House, the day wore on with no word from Congress.The House of Representatives was distracted by a brouhaha within the ...
... Colonel House in his fictional daydreams—or Woodrow Wilson in his pursuit of the ideal—imagined.22. VIII. In the White House, the day wore on with no word from Congress.The House of Representatives was distracted by a brouhaha within the ...
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Enlisting Volunteers and Other Unlikely Events | 85 |
Creeling and Other Activities That Make Philip Dru Unhappy | 117 |
Seeds of the Apocalypse | 159 |
The Women of NoMansLand | 199 |
Politics Is Adjourned HaHaHa | 237 |
Fights to the Finish | 265 |
Peace That Surpasses Understanding | 309 |
Chilling the Heart of the World 391 | 407 |
Illusions End 433 | 33 |
A Covenant with Power 471 | 71 |
Notes 491 | 91 |
Index 523 | 123 |
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