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Title: Breaking the Heart of the World by John Milton Cooper ISBN: 0-521-80786-7 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An essential volume in the study of Wilson
Comment: Breaking the Heart of the World is the most complete study of Woodrow Wilson and the "League Fight" since Thomas Bailey's Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal and WW and the Lost Peace. Professor Cooper eloquently retells the events from Wilson's return from Paris to his infamous stroke, and finally toward his fall from grace. Cooper has read everything and includes everything that is important to the fight. No one knows Woodrow Wilson better. And what you take away from Breaking the Heart of the World is a better knowledge for why the United States did not join the League of Nations in addition to an understanding of Wilson's personality and immense intelligence and foresight. Indeed Wilson saw that need for a League of Nations. America was just not ready for an international league to enforce peace. World War Two would make this clear. Professor Cooper also presents an unbiased account of Wilson. Wilson has been lauded and excoriated by historians. Cooper avoids both and instead presents the matter critically.
Also recommended: The Warrior and the Priest (John Cooper's dual biography of Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt), Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Progressivism (Arthur Link's important volume in the New American Nation Series), Woodrow Wilson: Revolution War and Peace, by Arthur Link. These are all important books about Wilson and the Progressive era.
Rating: 5
Summary: An essential volume in the study of Wilson
Comment: Professor Cooper's book is an essential volume in the study of an exceedingly important historical event: the failure of the United States to join the League of Nations. Cooper is incredibly unbiased in his approach neither totally defending Wilson nor constantly excoriating him. Breaking the Heart of the World extends deeply into the League debate and is a masterful example of historical research. There are so many players and therefore numerous sources to analyze in addition to the prodigious volumes of Wilson's own papers. Cooper has synthesized these and provided his audience with a rare and exceptional analysis of the events leading to the failure to join in an international League of Nations, followed by Wilson's repudiation, and more than a decade of international isolation.
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Title: Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations by Lloyd E. Ambrosius ISBN: 1403960097 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 06 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House by Phyllis Lee Levin ISBN: 0743211588 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 25 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations: A Story of Superpowers, Secret Agents, Wartime Allies and Enemies, and Their Quest for a Peaceful World by Stephen Schlesinger ISBN: 0813333245 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Woodrow Wilson 1913 - 1921: The American Presidents Series by H. W. Brands, Arthur M. Schlesinger ISBN: 0805069550 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan ISBN: 0375760520 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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