The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War IBasic Books, 5. 8. 2008 - Počet stran: 352 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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... the Sky When This Cruel War Is Over Remember the Morning Over There Loyalties:A Novel of World War II Time and Tide The Officers'Wives Promises to Keep Liberty Tavern THE ILLUSION OF VICTORY AMERICA IN WORLD WAR I THOMAS.
... the Sky When This Cruel War Is Over Remember the Morning Over There Loyalties:A Novel of World War II Time and Tide The Officers'Wives Promises to Keep Liberty Tavern THE ILLUSION OF VICTORY AMERICA IN WORLD WAR I THOMAS.
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... officers in his company were killed or wounded. I must also thank the editors of American Heritage, who sent me to Europe in 1968 to write an article on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of the Argonne. That marked the beginning of ...
... officers in his company were killed or wounded. I must also thank the editors of American Heritage, who sent me to Europe in 1968 to write an article on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of the Argonne. That marked the beginning of ...
Strana 28
... officer—the army's first venture into public relations. MacArthur was ordered to tell reporters that Roosevelt's volunteerism would mess up the planned draft.The major was already so popular with the fourth estate that a few days later ...
... officer—the army's first venture into public relations. MacArthur was ordered to tell reporters that Roosevelt's volunteerism would mess up the planned draft.The major was already so popular with the fourth estate that a few days later ...
Strana 42
... officer ran out on the sidewalk in front of the White House. Looking like someone fighting off a swarm of insects, he waved his arms to send a semaphore message to an officer in the State, War and Navy Building.Within minutes, wireless ...
... officer ran out on the sidewalk in front of the White House. Looking like someone fighting off a swarm of insects, he waved his arms to send a semaphore message to an officer in the State, War and Navy Building.Within minutes, wireless ...
Strana 52
... officers shot dead at the dinner tables of their treacherous Belgian hosts. Berlin permitted eight American news reporters to follow the German army through Belgium. On September 3, 1914, they sent a telegram to the Associated Press ...
... officers shot dead at the dinner tables of their treacherous Belgian hosts. Berlin permitted eight American news reporters to follow the German army through Belgium. On September 3, 1914, they sent a telegram to the Associated Press ...
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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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