The world remade: America in World War I
"An indispensable, sharply drawn account of America's pivotal...and still controversial...intervention in World War I, enlivened by fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period, from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Undone"...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "An indispensable, sharply drawn account of America's pivotal...and still controversial...intervention in World War I, enlivened by fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period, from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Undone"... "An indispensable, sharply drawn tour through America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, enlivened by fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period. After years of bitter debate and provocations on all sides, the U.S. declaration of war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunged the country into the savage European conflict that would destroy...and remake...the world. The World Remade is an engrossing account of America's pivotal, still controversial, intervention into WWI, encompassing the prelude to war, its conduct abroad and at home, and its aftermath; and including the tumultuous politics and seismic shifts of the era and the towering personalities of the day...a briskly paced, timely treatment of the seminal conflict of the twentieth century, which set the stage for America's emergence as a world power and the global tragedies and triumphs to come"... |
| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke. Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xvii, 651 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780553393323 9780553393347 |
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Introduction xiii
PART ONE
The Crooked Road to War
1: December 1918: Apotheosis 3
Background: How It Happened 12
2: Neutrality the Wilson Way 27
Background: Coming of Age 44
3: Quickly to the Brink 57
Background: The Tortoise and the Hare 79
4: Many Sacred Principles 99
Background: Mystery Voyage 121
5: Marked Cards and a Stacked Deck 128
Background: Choosing Sides 147
6: “A Dangerous Thing—To Inflame a People” 151
Background: The War of Words—and Pictures 171
7: Onward, Christian Soldiers 181
Background: Troublemaker 194
8: Why 200
Background: Over There—The War as of April 1917 213
9: “A Message of Death” 220
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PART TWO
The Price
10: Taking Charge 233
Background: Going Dry 248
11: “Skin-Deep Dollar Patriotism” 253
Background: Destiny’s Child 268
12: Cracking Down 274
Background: Three Faces of Labor 292
13: Welcome to France 301
Background: Buffalo Soldiers 318
14: “A Moblike Madness” 325
Background: “Disgusting Creatures” 337
15: The Law of Selfishness 344
Background: The War, Too, Changes 360
16: The Last Roll of the Iron Dice 366
Background: The War of the Air—and of
the Future 383
17: Deadlocked No More 388
Background: Death from a New Direction 403
18: The Tide Turns 409
Background: Eggs Loaded with Dynamite 421
19: An Army at Last 425
Background: “A Soldier’s Soldier” 439
20: In at the Kill 444
PART THREE
Sowing Dragons’ Teeth
21: The World the War Made 463
Background: Lost? 482
Contents | xi
22: Compromise or Betrayal? 487
Background: Strange Bedfellows 510
23: “Helfs Dirtiest Work” 515
Background: The Palmer Raids 5 34
24: “The Door Is Closed” 541
AFTERMATH: “Now It Is All Over” 559
Appendix: Woodrow Wilson’s Program for Peace 573
S ources and N otes 577
Bibliography 605
Index 613
Photo Credits 649
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