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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... Congress to convene “to receive a communication concerning grave matters of national policy” from the president. Every American who read a newspaper assumed Wilson's communication would contain a request that Congress declare a state of ...
... Congress to convene “to receive a communication concerning grave matters of national policy” from the president. Every American who read a newspaper assumed Wilson's communication would contain a request that Congress declare a state of ...
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... Congress Ready to Declare State of War Now Exists, Country in a Militant Mood.” On the front page of the same ... Congress, Gilbert virtually dismissed it as hopeless.“Let Germany do it” (that is, let Germany push the United States into ...
... Congress Ready to Declare State of War Now Exists, Country in a Militant Mood.” On the front page of the same ... Congress, Gilbert virtually dismissed it as hopeless.“Let Germany do it” (that is, let Germany push the United States into ...
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... Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street'. . . “He thought the Constitution would not survive it,” Cobb said.“That free speech and the right of assembly would go. He said a nation couldn't put its strength ...
... Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street'. . . “He thought the Constitution would not survive it,” Cobb said.“That free speech and the right of assembly would go. He said a nation couldn't put its strength ...
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... 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 by 3 P.M. He did not want to look as if he were “unduly pressing matters.” House, by now a past master ...
... 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 by 3 P.M. He did not want to look as if he were “unduly pressing matters.” House, by now a past master ...
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... Congress.The House of Representatives was distracted by a brouhaha within the Republi- can Party.The Democrats were in the minority.Wilson's whisker-thin reelection in 1916, decided by a mere 4,000 votes in California, had left the ...
... Congress.The House of Representatives was distracted by a brouhaha within the Republi- can Party.The Democrats were in the minority.Wilson's whisker-thin reelection in 1916, decided by a mere 4,000 votes in California, had left 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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