PROLOGUE: A Great Adventure
PART I. THE TEXAS YEARS, 1858-1912
1. A Spacious Youth.
2. Search For A Career.
3. The Challenge Of Texas Politics.
4. The "Twilight Years."
5. "The Man And The Opportunity."
6. The Ideal Society.
PART II. WILSON IN POWER, 1913-1914
7. The Making of Wilson's Cabinet
8. Foreign Horizons.
9. The New Freedom.
10. Reform and Intervention.
11. "The Great Adventure."
PART III. THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1917
12. America And World War I.
13. The Search For Peace.
14. London, Berlin, Paris.
15. Return To London.
16. American Interlude.
17. The Lure Of Peace.
18. The House-Grey Memorandum.
19. The Failure Of Peace.
20. Presidential Politics.
21. Re-election And The Plea For Peace.
22. America Goes To War.
PART IV. AMERICA AT WAR, 1917-1918
23. America Prepares For War.
24. The Strains Of Coalition Warfare.
25. Envoy To The Allies.
26. Crises At Home And Abroad.
27. The Turning Point.
28. The End Of The War.
PART V. PEACEMAKING, 1919-1920
29. Waiting for the Peace Conference.
30. The Peace Conference, I.
31. The Peace Conference, II.
32. The Fight For The League.
PART VI. ELDER STATESMAN, 1921-1938
33. The End Of The Wilson Era.
34. New Beginnings.
35. Marking Time.
36. Victory At Last.
37. The Crisis Of The 1930s.
EPILOGUE: Crossing the River.
Charles E. Neu is Professor Emeritus of History at Brown University. He is the author of many books, including America's Lost War: Vietnam, 1945-1975.
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insight into the Wilson presidency."--Francis M. Carroll, The
Historian
"Neu has written a detailed, well-researched, definitive biography
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Wilson, this book combines their lives into one volume (with the
focus on House and his place in history) and affirms the important
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States."--Janet Schmelzer, Southwestern Historical Quarterly
"Neu has used House's diary and other papers to craft a remarkably
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"Colonel House is an enduring analysis of one of the most
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indeed in world history. This is a monumental work that stand the
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"Charles Neu's long-anticipated biography of Colonel Edward House
is a major achievement that has been worth the wait. The research
is exhaustive. The analysis and evaluations are judicious, fully
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diplomatic vignettes are vivid. Neu's assessment of the U.S.
political scene and the international relations of the Woodrow
Wilson era is far-ranging and impressive. Readers now have
available a
comprehensive and enthralling study of one of the commanding
figures in twentieth-century American history." --David Mayers,
Boston University, author of FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of
Crisis
"At long last, Edward M. House has found the biographer he
deserves. Charles Neu employs a sharply critical eye in winnowing
fact from fantasy about the man whom contemporaries could call both
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bitch.'" --John Cooper, author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
"A powerful and fascinating biography of a powerful man. Colonel
House and Woodrow Wilson were unlikely partners, but they shared an
interest in American politics in an era in which the United States
was emerging as a world power. A great read for cold winter nights
or a day at the beach." --Lou Galambos, Professor of History and
Editor of the Eisenhower Papers, Johns Hopkins University
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