Colonel House : A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner.
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- 9780199391431
- 973.91/3092 B
- E748.H77 -- N48 2015eb
Cover -- Colonel House -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Series -- Contents -- Prologue: A Great Adventure -- Insert -- PART I: THE TEXAS YEARS, 1858-1912 -- 1. A Spacious Youth -- 2. Searching for a Career -- 3. Creating "Our Crowd" -- 4. The "Twilight Years" -- 5. "The Man and the Opportunity" -- 6. The Ideal Society -- PART II: WILSON IN POWER, 1913-1914 -- 7. "Our Crowd" Goes to Washington -- 8. Foreign Horizons, 1913 -- 9. The New Freedom -- 10. Reform and Intervention -- 11. "The Great Adventure" -- PART III: THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1917 -- 12. America and World War I -- 13. The Search for Peace -- 14. London, Paris, Berlin -- 15. The Turn to War -- 16. American Interlude -- 17. The Lure of Peace -- 18. The House-Grey Memorandum -- 19. The Failure of Peace -- 20. Presidential Politics -- 21. Reelection and the Plea for Peace -- 22. America Goes to War -- PART IV: AMERICA AT WAR, 1917-1918 -- 23. America Prepares for War -- 24. The Strains of Coalition Warfare -- 25. Envoy to the Allies -- 26. Crises at Home and Abroad -- 27. The Turning Point -- 28. The End of the War -- PART V: PEACEMAKING, 1919-1920 -- 29. Waiting for the Peace Conference -- 30. The Peace Conference, I -- 31. The Peace Conference, II -- 32. The Fight for the League -- PART VI: ELDER STATESMAN, 1921-1938 -- 33. The End of the Wilson Era -- 34. New Beginnings -- 35. Marking Time -- 36. Victory at Last -- 37. The Crisis of the 1930s -- Epilogue: Crossing the River -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.
A biography of Edward M. House, a patient, crafty, and sometimes cynical political infighter who would become Woodrow Wilson's closest foreign policy adviser.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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