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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... Party's hostility toward Wilson—and something deeper: a mixture of bafflement and amazement to find this man president of the United States. In 1910, a mere seven years earlier,Woodrow Wilson had been president of a minor-league New ...
... Party's hostility toward Wilson—and something deeper: a mixture of bafflement and amazement to find this man president of the United States. In 1910, a mere seven years earlier,Woodrow Wilson had been president of a minor-league New ...
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... Party's) conser- vatives balked and stayed with the current occupant of the White House, William Howard Taft. Roosevelt ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party and split the Republican majority.Woodrow Wilson became president with ...
... Party's) conser- vatives balked and stayed with the current occupant of the White House, William Howard Taft. Roosevelt ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party and split the Republican majority.Woodrow Wilson became president with ...
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... Party, such as William Jennings Bryan, to back the instant politician from New Jersey. House was Wilson's political self, his bridge to a world that Wilson was too aloof and often too condescending to tolerate.Wilson's ideal interview ...
... Party, such as William Jennings Bryan, to back the instant politician from New Jersey. House was Wilson's political self, his bridge to a world that Wilson was too aloof and often too condescending to tolerate.Wilson's ideal interview ...
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... 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 people's chamber in nominal Republican control, with the swing vote in the hands of eight ...
... 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 people's chamber in nominal Republican control, with the swing vote in the hands of eight ...
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... Party's nomination in 1912, rapped his gavel for order.Two minutes later, the rear doors opened and the vice president of the United States,Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana, entered, followed in a column of twos by the senators ...
... Party's nomination in 1912, rapped his gavel for order.Two minutes later, the rear doors opened and the vice president of the United States,Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana, entered, followed in a column of twos by the senators ...
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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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