| Description |
xiv, 335 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index |
| Contents |
A coming together and a falling apart. -- Origins of a Texas gentleman. -- The Texas kingmaker. -- Going national. -- Making Woodrow Wilson president. -- The hungry horde. -- Wall Street and Mexico. -- The Schrippenfest affair. -- Trying to end the war in Europe. -- America drifts into the war. -- 1917. -- The inquiry and the Fourteen Points. -- Russia. -- Armistice. -- The covenant. -- The end of a friendship. -- The end of the treaty. -- Watching the world go by |
| Summary |
"The importance of Colonel Edward M. House in twentieth-century American foreign policy is enormous: from 1913 to 1919 he served not only as intimate friend and chief political adviser to President Woodrow Wilson but also as national security adviser and senior diplomat. Yet the relationship between House and the president ended in a quarrel at the Paris peace conference of 1919 - largely because of Mrs. Wilson's hostility to House - and House has received little sympathetic historical attention since. This extensively researched book reintroduces House and clearly establishes his contributions as one of the greatest American diplomats." |
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"A "kingmaker" in Texas politics, House joined Wilson's campaign in 1912 and soon was traveling through Europe as the president's secret agent. He visited Europe repeatedly during World War I and played a major part in drafting Wilson's Fourteen Points and the Covenant of the League of Nations. He tried to stop the war before it began, and to end it by negotiation after it had started. His greatest achievement was to lock both sides into an armistice based on American ideals."--Jacket |
| Subjects |
House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938
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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 -- Friends and associates
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Treaty of Versailles (1919 June 28)
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Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1913-1921
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace
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Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. lcgft |
| Dewey No |
973.91/3092 22 |
| LC NO |
E748.H77 H63 2006 |
| Dewey No |
B 22 |
| OCLC # |
61864854 |
| Isrn |
9780300092691 |
| ISBN |
0300092695 (alk. paper) |
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9780300092691 |
| Isn/Std # |
(OCoLC)61864854 (OCoLC)64554746 |
| LCCN |
2005044732 |
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