Table of Contents

Preface1A Political Autobiography32Wilson and the Age of Socialist Inquiry153Searching for a New Diplomacy314The Political Origins of Progressive and Conservative Internationalism485The Turning Point706Raising a New Flag: The League and the Coalition of 1916857"All the Texts of the Rights of Man": Manifestoes for Peace and War1058"If the War Is Too Strong": The Travail of Progressive Internationalism and the Fourteen Points1239Waiting for Wilson: The Wages of Delay and Repression14810"The War Thus Comes to an End"16711The Stern Covenanter19412"A Practical Document and a Humane Document"21013"The Thing Reaches the Depths of Tragedy"22714Wilson's Fate246Epilogue, Echoes from Pueblo271Abbreviations277Notes279Bibliography341Index359

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Wilson, in his time and through his vocation, transformed the standard of legitimacy in government throughout the world. We are perhaps only beginning to see this and, with the help of Thomas Knock's important work, better understand it. -- Senator Patrick Moynihan, author of "On the Law of Nations" A truly great book. It is simply superb in every way. -- Senator George McGovern A superb, sympathetic account of the intellectual and political milieu surrounding Wilson's League of Nations. -- Thomas G. Paterson, author of "American Foreign Policy: A History"

About the Author

Thomas J. Knock is Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University.

Reviews

Winner of the Warren F. Kuehl Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations "[This book] challenges virtually every recent historian who has tackled the subject. Knock demands that we see Wilson in a genuinely new framework and succeeds admirably."--Gary J. Ostrower, The American Historical Review "Now that humanity is possibly drawing closer to ... [a] 'Federation of the World,' To End All Wars is an enlightening and valuable introduction to the birth of that noble vision."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Times Literary Supplement