Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. HouseYale University Press, 01/01/2006 - 335 من الصفحات The importance of Colonel Edward M. House in twentieth-century American foreign policy is enormous: from 1913 to 1919 he served not only as intimate friend and chief political adviser to President Woodrow Wilson but also as national security adviser and senior diplomat. Yet the relationship between House and the president ended in a quarrel at the Paris peace conference of 1919largely because of Mrs. Wilson s hostility to Houseand House has received little sympathetic historical attention since. This extensively researched book reintroduces House and clearly establishes his contributions as one of the greatest American diplomats. A kingmaker in Texas politics, House joined Wilson s campaign in 1912 and soon was traveling through Europe as the president s secret agent. He visited Europe repeatedly during World War I and played a major part in draftingWilson's Fourteen Points and the Covenant of the League of Nations. He tried to stop the war before it began, and to end it by negotiation after it had started. His greatest achievement was to lock both sides into an armistice based on American ideals." |
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A Coming Together and a Falling Apart | 1 |
Origins of a Texas Gentleman | 16 |
The Texas Kingmaker | 31 |
Going National | 43 |
Making Woodrow Wilson President | 54 |
The Hungry Horde | 69 |
Wall Street and Mexico | 81 |
The Schrippenfest Affair | 91 |
Trying to End the War in Europe | 103 |
Watching the World Go By | 257 |
Notes | 277 |
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