Publisher's Synopsis
This is the story of the USA in the time of the Great War. Woodrow Wilson came into the White House with an agenda for domestic affairs, and got stuck with a world war. He had to abandon trust-busting and switch over to trust-building. This is an 88,000 word history of the domestic as well as foreign affairs that the Princeton Professor had to handle. Was Wilson a socialist? Did his wife run the country for the last year of his tenure? How did the United States get dragged into World War One? How did the United States manage the war and the settlement? What were the Palmer Raids? Who was Colonel Ed House, and was he a real Colonel? Did Colonel Roosevelt have anything to do with the United States deciding to go in, and go "over there?" Mike Donovan tries to answer these and many other questions with this useful book.
