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699

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Colonel House: a Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner
2015, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-656) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.91/3092, B
Library of Congress
E748.H77 N48 2015, E748.H77N48 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 699 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
699

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27172489M
Internet Archive
colonelhousebiog0000neuc
ISBN 10
0195045505
ISBN 13
9780195045505
LCCN
2014015227
OCLC/WorldCat
922571554, 878224883

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