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Illusion of Victory

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Thomas Fleming , a distinguished historian and author of more than fifty books, was a frequent guest on PBS, A&E, and the History Channel. He also contributed articles to American Heritage, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History , and many other magazines. Klappentext In this sweeping historical canvas! Fleming reveals how the British and French duped Wilson into thinking World War I was as good as won! and there would be no need to send an army overseas. Zusammenfassung 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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Authors Thomas Fleming
Publisher Basic Books Inc.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 29.06.2004
 
EAN 9780465024698
ISBN 978-0-465-02469-8
No. of pages 576
Dimensions 155 mm x 235 mm x 40 mm
Subjects Guides > Sport

General & world history, History: earliest times to present day, General and world history

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