Colonel House: a biography of Woodrow Wilson's silent partner
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1. Verfasser: Neu, Charles E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford Univ. Press 2015
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Part I. The Texas years, 1858-1912 -- A spacious youth -- Searching for a career -- Texas politics: creating "our crowd" -- The "twilight years" -- "The man and the opportunity" -- The ideal society -- Part II. Wilson in power, 1913-1914 -- "Our crowd" goes to Washington -- Foreign horizons, 1913 -- The new freedom -- Reform and intervention -- "The great adventure" -- Part III. The Great War, 1914-1917 -- The Great War -- The search for peace -- London, Paris, Berlin -- The turn to war -- American interlude -- The lure of peace -- The House-Grey Memorandum -- The failure of peace -- Presidential politics -- Re-election and the plea for peace -- America goes to war -- Part IV. America at war, 1917-1918 -- America prepares for war -- The strains of coalition warfare -- Envoy to the allies -- Crises at home and abroad -- The turning point -- The end of the war -- Part V. Peacemaking, 1919-1920 -- Waiting for the Peace Conference -- The Peace Conference, I -- The Peace Conference, II -- The fight for the League -- Part VI. Elder statesman, 1921-1938 -- The end of the Wilson Era -- New beginnings -- Marking time -- Victory at last -- The crisis of the 1930s -- Epilogue: crossing the river
Beschreibung:XIV, 699, [16] S. Ill. 25 cm

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