The World Remade by G J Meyer
A piercing, indispensable account of America's pivotal involvement in World War I, rich with fresh insights into the tumultuous politics and towering historical figures that defined the era-from the New York Times bestselling author of The World Unmade" The World Remade succeeds brilliantly . . . Meyer tells the story with brio. Characters come alive and the past seems near."-Publishers Weekly
After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the country into the vicious European conflict that would redraw the globe. When it declared war, the United States was the youngest of the major powers and militarily the weakest by far. On November 11, 1918, when the fighting stopped, it was not only the richest country on earth but the mightiest.
With the mercurial, autocratic President Woodrow Wilson as a primary focus, G. J. Meyer takes readers from the heated deliberations over U.S. involvement, through the provocations and manipulations that drew us into the fight, to the battlefield itself and the shattering aftermath of the struggle. Though America's entry into the Great War was instrumental to the defeat of Germany, victory led to a peace treaty so ill-conceived, so vindictive, that the world was put on the road to an even bloodier confrontation.
On the home front, Meyer recounts the break-up of traditional class structures, the rise of the progressive and labor movements, the wave of anti-German hysteria, and the explosive expansion of both the economy and federal power, including shocking suspensions of constitutional protections that planted the seeds of today's national security state.
Stunning in scope, The World Remade interweaves the many strands of this story into a gripping narrative that casts new light on one of the darkest, most forgotten corners of U.S. history and adds a compelling, uniquely American dimension to our understanding of the seminal conflict of the twentieth century.
G.J. Meyer is the author of The Tudors and A World Undone: The Tale of the Great War, as well as Executive Blues and The Memphis Murders, two popular works of history. He graduated with a master's degree. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and his master's degree from Harvard University, where he received the Nieman Fellowship in Journalism. He has taught at colleges in Des Moines, St. Louis, and Chicago. Louis, New York, and Wiltshire, England, and now lives in Wiltshire, England.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780553393347 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553393340 |
| Title | The World Remade |
| Author | Gj Meyer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2018-02-06 |
| Number of pages | 672 |
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