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The Illusion of Victory: Americans in World War I

Door Thomas Fleming

Categorie
WO I
Boeknummer
#338021-XC30
Titel
The Illusion of Victory: Americans in World War I
Auteur
Fleming, Thomas
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York, NY : Basic Books
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
046502467X
ISBN13
9780465024674
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with some b/w photographs, maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 convinc... (Lees verder)e 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.
Pagina's
543
Conditie
Goed — Light tobacco smell.
Prijs
€ 9,00

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