Colonel House

Englisch

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

Online-Ressource (721 p)

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner

978-0-19-504550-5

978-0-19-939143-1 : 55.52 (NL)

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-19-504550-5 (Druckausgabe)

Cover; Colonel House; Copyright; Dedication; Series; Contents; Prologue: A Great Adventure; 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 Interlude17. 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 Era34. New Beginnings; 35. Marking Time; 36. Victory at Last; 37. The Crisis of the 1930s; Epilogue: Crossing the River; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources; Index

*Electronic books

*House, Edward Mandell ; 1858-1938 ; Wilson, Woodrow ; 1856-1924 ; Friends and associates ; Treaty of Versailles ; (1919) ; Statesmen ; United States ; Biography ; World War, 1914-1918 ; Peace ; United States ; Foreign relations ; 1913-1921 ; United States ; Politics and government ; 1913-1921 ; Electronic books

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: E748.H77 .N48 2014

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 973.913092;

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 crafting the Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference. Though the intimate friendship between the president and his advisor ultimately unraveled in the wake of these negotiations, House's role in the Wilson administration had a lasting impact on 20th century international politics. In this seminal biogra

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