Colonel House : a biography of Woodrow Wilson's silent partner /
A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today; yet he was one of the most influential figures of the Wilson presidency. Wilson's chief political advisor, House played a key role in international diplomacy, and had a significant hand in craft...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.