To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order

by Thomas J. Knock

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A close look at Woodrow Wilson's political thought and international diplomacyIn the widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wilson's epic quest for a new world order. This book follows Wilson's thought and diplomacy from his policy toward revolutionary Mexico, through his dramatic call for "Peace without Victory" in World War I, to the Senate's rejection of the League of Nations. Throughout, Knock reinterprets the origins show more of internationalism in American politics, sweeping away the view that isolationism was the cause of Wilson's failure and revealing the role of competing visions of internationalism-conservative and progressive. show less

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Thomas J. Knock is Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of The Rise of a Prairie Statesman and coauthor of The Crisis of American Foreign Policy (both Princeton).

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To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order
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Woodrow Wilson

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Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS
973.91History & geographyHistory of North AmericaUnited States1901-World Wars and Depression Era (1901-1953)
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E767.1 .K56History of the United StatesUnited StatesTwentieth centuryWilson's administrations, 1913-1921
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