Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations
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Foremost in the cast of characters is Woodrow Wilson, the shy, brilliant, revered, and misunderstood “schoolmaster,” whose administration was a complex of apparent contradictions. Wilson had almost no interest in foreign affairs when he was first elected, yet later, in proposing the League of Nations, he was to play a major role in international politics. During his first summer in office, without any previous experience in banking, he pushed through the Federal Reserve Bank Act, perhaps his most lasting contribution. Reelected in 1916 on the rallying cry, “He kept us out of war,” he shortly found himself and his country inextricably involved in the European conflict.
John Dos Passos has brilliantly coordinated the political, the military, and the economic themes so that the story line never falters. First published in 1962, Mr. Wilson’s War is one of the great books and an addition of major stature to any reader’s library
John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos (1896–1970) was a writer, painter, and political activist. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write Three Soldiers in 1919, the first in a series of works that established him as one of the most prolific, inventive, and influential American writers of the twentieth century, writing over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Basically a novelist, but one of a journalistic, not fantastical bent, John dos Passos did a pretty good job of laying out a somewhat leftist view of this reformist period of American life. Covering the Teddy Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson's administrations, this has useful information of the anti-trust legislation, and the beginnings of the unionization period. Obviously a descendent of a minority group, dos Passos also deals with white America's xenophobia.