Colonel House : a biography of Woodrow Wilson's silent partner / Charles E. Neu.
By: Neu, Charles E [author.].
Material type: BookPublisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (721 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199391431 (e-book).Subject(s): 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 -- 1913-1921Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.91/3092 | B Online resources: Click to ViewItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. The Texas years, 1858-1912 -- A spacious youth -- Searching for a career -- Texas politics: creating "our crowd" -- The "twilight years" -- "The man and the opportunity" -- The ideal society -- Part II. Wilson in power, 1913-1914 -- "Our crowd" goes to Washington -- Foreign horizons, 1913 -- The new freedom -- Reform and intervention -- "The great adventure" -- Part III. The Great War, 1914-1917 -- The Great War -- The search for peace -- London, Paris, Berlin -- The turn to war -- American interlude -- The lure of peace -- The House-Grey Memorandum -- The failure of peace -- Presidential politics -- Re-election and the plea for peace -- America goes to war -- Part IV. America at war, 1917-1918 -- America prepares for war -- The strains of coalition warfare -- Envoy to the allies -- Crises at home and abroad -- The turning point -- The end of the war -- Part V. Peacemaking, 1919-1920 -- Waiting for the Peace Conference -- The Peace Conference, I -- The Peace Conference, II -- The fight for the League -- Part VI. Elder statesman, 1921-1938 -- The end of the Wilson Era -- New beginnings -- Marking time -- Victory at last -- The crisis of the 1930s -- Epilogue: crossing the river.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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