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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... took office, thanks largely to his interference in their ongoing revolution. But Americans regarded the matter as a private quarrel shielded by the Monroe Doctrine. In mid-March, German submarines sank four American ships in the barred ...
... took office, thanks largely to his interference in their ongoing revolution. But Americans regarded the matter as a private quarrel shielded by the Monroe Doctrine. In mid-March, German submarines sank four American ships in the barred ...
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... took him twenty-six strokes to complete a single hole. His wife regularly beat him. He played only because Admiral Grayson had told him it was vital to his precarious health.16 Back in the White House, the tense president told Colonel ...
... took him twenty-six strokes to complete a single hole. His wife regularly beat him. He played only because Admiral Grayson had told him it was vital to his precarious health.16 Back in the White House, the tense president told Colonel ...
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... took over a wealthy, disordered, quarrelsome nation and led it into an era of almost superhuman contentment by persuading the people to make him their supreme autocrat. Few people were aware that this vision was not very different from ...
... took over a wealthy, disordered, quarrelsome nation and led it into an era of almost superhuman contentment by persuading the people to make him their supreme autocrat. Few people were aware that this vision was not very different from ...
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... contretemps, called for voice votes on the selection of the other officers of the House—a process that took most of the afternoon.23 At about half past four, the restless president walked across 1 2 T H E I L L U S I O N O F V I C T O R Y.
... contretemps, called for voice votes on the selection of the other officers of the House—a process that took most of the afternoon.23 At about half past four, the restless president walked across 1 2 T H E I L L U S I O N O F V I C T O R Y.
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... took the floor. He opened with a brief, almost curt attack on the idea that every senator should “stand behind the president.”What kind of doctrine was that? he asked.What if the president were wrong? That was the crucial question every ...
... took the floor. He opened with a brief, almost curt attack on the idea that every senator should “stand behind the president.”What kind of doctrine was that? he asked.What if the president were wrong? That was the crucial question every ...
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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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