Author: Woodrow WilsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: May 13-July 17, 1918
Author: Woodrow WilsonThe Papers of Woodrow Wilson
Author: Woodrow WilsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691047089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
This massive collection includes all important letters, speeches, interviews, press conferences, and public papers on Woodrow Wilson. The volumes make available as never before the materials essential to understanding Wilson's personality, his intellectual, religious, and political development, and his careers as educator, writer, orator, and statesman. The Papers not only reveal the private and public man, but also the era in which he lived, making the series additionally valuable to scholars in various fields of history between the 1870's and the 1920's.
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson
Author: Woodrow WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1916-1918
Author: Woodrow WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1918-1922
Author: Woodrow WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Papers of Woodrow Wilson
Author: Woodrow WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson
Author: Woodrow WilsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691047065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Wilson and his administration find themselves in a "winter crisis," set off by the Fuel Administrator's limitations on use of coal by manufacturing and business concerns. Soon afterward, the administration's critics, led by Senator George E. Chamberlain, demand the creation of a super war cabinet to take control of the war effort from Wilson. Wilson defends his Secretary of War; oversees the drafting of the Overman bill; appoints Bernard M. Baruch head of the War Industries Board; and rallies Senate forces to defeat the Chamberlain bill. Meanwhile, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister and American diplomats negotiate secretly for a separate peace between Austria-Hungary and the United States and the Allies. Wilson goes before a joint session of Congress on February 11 to continue his dialogue with the leaders of the Central Powers. The Germans reply, on March 3, 1918, by imposing the punitive Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on a prostrate Russia. Wilson stands firm in opposing any Japanese move into Siberia; he sends a message of friendship to the fourth All-Russia Congress of Soviets. As the volume ends, he corresponds with Emperor Charles through the King of Spain about the possibilities of a separate peace for Austria-Hungary.
Chief Executive to Chief Justice
Author: Lewis L. GouldPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 070062001X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
As our 27th president from 1909 to 1913, and then as chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930, William Howard Taft was the only man ever to lead two of America’s three governing branches. But between these two well-documented periods in office, there lies an eight-year patch of largely unexplored political wilderness. It was during this time, after all, that Taft somehow managed to rise from his ignominious defeat by both Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election to achieve his lifelong goal of becoming chief justice. In the first in-depth look at this period in Taft’s singular career, eminent presidential historian Lewis L. Gould reveals how a man often derided for his lack of political acumen made his way through the hazards of Republican affairs to gain his objective. In the years between the presidency and the Supreme Court Taft was, as one commentator observed, “the greatest of globe trotters for humanity.” Gould tracks him as he crisscrosses the country from 1913 through the summer of 1921, the inveterate traveler reinventing himself as an elder Republican statesman with no visible political ambition beyond informing and serving the public. Taft was, however, working the long game, serving on the National War Labor Board, fighting for the League of Nations, teaching law and constitutional history at Yale, making up his differences with Roosevelt, all while negotiating the Republican Party’s antipathy and his own intense dislike of Woodrow Wilson, whose wartime policies and battle for the league he was bound to support. Throughout, his judicial ambition shaped his actions, with surprising adroitness. This account of Taft’s journey from the White House to the Supreme Court fills a large gap in our understanding of an important American politician and jurist. It also discloses how intricate and complicated public affairs had become during the era of World War I and its aftermath, an era in which William Howard Taft, as a shrewd commentator on the political scene, a resourceful practitioner of party politics, and a man of consummate ambition, made a significant and lasting mark.
Index to the Woodrow Wilson Papers: G-O
Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Woodrow Wilson as Commander in Chief
Author: Michael P. RiccardsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476679576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This first study on Woodrow Wilson as the commander in chief during the Great War analyzes his management style before the war, his diplomacy and his battle with the Senate. It considers the war as representing the collapse of Western traditional virtues and examines Wilson's attempt to restore them. Emphasizing the American war effort on the domestic front, it also discusses Wilson's rise to power, his education, career, and work as governor as necessary steps in his formation. The authors deal honestly and critically with the racism that characterized this brilliant but limited career.