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Progressives At War - William G. Mcadoo and Newton D. Baker, 18631941

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Douglas B. Craig is a reader in history at the Australian National University. He is the author of After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920–1934 . Klappentext In this dual biography, Douglas B. Craig examines the careers of two prominent American public figures, Newton Diehl Baker and William Gibbs McAdoo, whose lives spanned the era between the Civil War and World War II.Both Baker and McAdoo migrated from the South to northern industrial cities and took up professions that had nothing to do with staple-crop agriculture. Both eventually became cabinet officers in the presidential administration of another southerner with personal memories of defeat and Reconstruction: Woodrow Wilson. A Georgian who practiced law and led railroad tunnel construction efforts in New York City, McAdoo served as treasury secretary at a time when Congress passed an income tax, established the Federal Reserve System, and funded the American and Allied war efforts in World War I. Born in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, Baker won election as mayor of Cleveland in the early twentieth century and then, as Wilson's secretary of war, supervised the dramatic build-up of the U.S. military when the country entered the Great War in Europe.This is the first full biography of McAdoo and the first since 1961 of Baker. Craig points out similarities and differences in their backgrounds, political activities, professional careers, and family lives.Craig's approach in Progressives at War illuminates the shared struggles, lofty ambitions, and sometimes conflicted interactions of these figures. Their experiences and perspectives on public and private affairs (as insiders who nonetheless were, in some sense, outsiders) make their lives, work, and thought especially interesting. Baker and McAdoo, in league with Wilson, offer Craig the opportunity to deliver a fresh and insightful study of the period, its major issues, and some of its leading figures. Zusammenfassung Baker and McAdoo! in league with Wilson! offer Craig the opportunity to deliver a fresh and insightful study of the period! its major issues! and some of its leading figures. ...

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Authors Douglas B Craig, Douglas B. Craig, Douglas B. (Senior Lecturer Craig, CRAIG DOUGLAS B
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 26.06.2013
 
EAN 9781421407180
ISBN 978-1-4214-0718-0
No. of pages 552
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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