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by: Godfrey Hodgson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780300137552
ISBN: 0300137559
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 372
Publication Date: July 29, 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Sales Rank: 1676974
Studio: Yale University Press
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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.
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.
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Rating: - a short biography of Edward House
Edward House was one of the most influential diplomats in American history, and has faded into an oblivion inverse to the role he played in shaping the foreign policy of the man HL Mencken described as the "Archangel Woodrow."
If you're still in high school, or perhaps doing undergraduate work, this book will prove to be invaluable and immediately accessible in helping you write a paper. If you're looking sources to do your own research, this book will also be quite helpful. But it's ... Read More
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