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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... a traitor.The warring nations had all rejected Wilson's entreaty, and Germany had added injury to this insult by announcing that on February 1, 1917, it would resume unrestricted submarine warfare in barred zones around the War Week.
... a traitor.The warring nations had all rejected Wilson's entreaty, and Germany had added injury to this insult by announcing that on February 1, 1917, it would resume unrestricted submarine warfare in barred zones around the War Week.
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... added,“It was the best I could do.”58 Roosevelt's impatience with his slow-moving chief was fueled by the widespread assumption that the major U.S. role in the war would be on the ocean. In the April 4 New York Tribune, Cass W. Gilbert ...
... added,“It was the best I could do.”58 Roosevelt's impatience with his slow-moving chief was fueled by the widespread assumption that the major U.S. role in the war would be on the ocean. In the April 4 New York Tribune, Cass W. Gilbert ...
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... added fuel to his ire. La Follette, he sneered, had given a speech “that would have better become Herr Bethmann-Hollweg,” a reference to Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, the chancellor of Germany.Williams called the speech “pro-German ...
... added fuel to his ire. La Follette, he sneered, had given a speech “that would have better become Herr Bethmann-Hollweg,” a reference to Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, the chancellor of Germany.Williams called the speech “pro-German ...
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... adding a touch of low comedy to the scene.84 Hour after hour, the speeches, limited to ten minutes by Speaker Clark, marched on, many making the same or similar points. Like La Follette and Norris, the antiwar minority argued that ...
... adding a touch of low comedy to the scene.84 Hour after hour, the speeches, limited to ten minutes by Speaker Clark, marched on, many making the same or similar points. Like La Follette and Norris, the antiwar minority argued that ...
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... unprepared Asking our aid. I joined the ranks and died. I gave my life for freedom—this I know For those who bade me fight had told me so. King added to this tragic parade a sixth soul from 4 0 T H E I L L U S I O N O F V I C T O R Y.
... unprepared Asking our aid. I joined the ranks and died. I gave my life for freedom—this I know For those who bade me fight had told me so. King added to this tragic parade a sixth soul from 4 0 T H E I L L U S I O N O F V I C T O R Y.
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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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