Colonel House
Subtitle: a biography of Woodrow Wilson's silent partner
By: Charles E. Neu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 699
ISBN-13: 9780195045505
Subjects: Politics and government; World War, 1914-1918; Friends and associates; Treaty of Versailles; Foreign relations; Peace; Biography; Statesmen
Description: In this seminal biography, Charles E. Neu details the life of "Colonel" House, a Texas landowner who rose to become one of the century's greatest political operators. Ambitious and persuasive, House worked largely behind the scenes, developing ties of loyalty and using patronage to rally party workers behind his candidates. In 1911 he met Woodrow Wilson, and almost immediately the two formed what would become one of the most famous friendships in American political history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-656) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The Texas years, 1858-1912; title: A spacious youth; title: Searching for a career; title: Texas politics: creating "our crowd"; title: The "twilight years"; title: "The man and the opportunity"; title: The ideal society; title: Part II. Wilson in power, 1913-1914; title: "Our crowd" goes to Washington; title: Foreign horizons, 1913; title: The new freedom; title: Reform and intervention; title: "The great adventure"; title: Part III. The Great War, 1914-1917; title: The Great War; title: The search for peace; title: London, Paris, Berlin; title: The turn to war; title: American interlude; title: The lure of peace; title: The House-Grey Memorandum; title: The failure of peace; title: Presidential politics; title: Re-election and the plea for peace; title: America goes to war; title: Part IV. America at war, 1917-1918; title: America prepares for war; title: The strains of coalition warfare; title: Envoy to the allies; title: Crises at home and abroad; title: The turning point; title: The end of the war; title: Part V. Peacemaking, 1919-1920; title: Waiting for the Peace Conference; title: The Peace Conference, I; title: The Peace Conference, II; title: The fight for the League; title: Part VI. Elder statesman, 1921-1938; title: The end of the Wilson Era; title: New beginnings; title: Marking time; title: Victory at last; title: The crisis of the 1930s; title: Epilogue: crossing the river.