Penguin Random House
The World Remade: America in World War I
by G. J. Meyer
A bracing, indispensable account of America’s epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period
After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the country into the savage European conflict that would redraw the map of the continent—and the globe. The World Remade is an engrossing chronicle of America’s pivotal, still controversial intervention into World War I, encompassing the tumultuous politics and towering historical figures that defined the era and forged the future. When it declared war, the United States was the youngest of the major powers and militarily the weakest by far. On November 11, 1918, when the fighting stopped, it was not only the richest country on earth but the mightiest.
With the mercurial, autocratic President Woodrow Wilson as a primary focus, G. J. Meyer takes readers from the heated deliberations over U.S. involvement, through the provocations and manipulations that drew us into the fight, to the battlefield itself and the shattering aftermath of the struggle. America’s entry into the Great War helped make possible the defeat of Germany that had eluded Britain, France, Russia, and Italy in three and a half years of horrendous carnage. Victory, in turn, led to a peace treaty so ill-conceived, so vindictive, that the world was put on the road to an even bloodier confrontation a mere twenty years later.
On the home front, Meyer recounts the break-up of traditional class structures, the rise of the progressive and labor movements, the wave of anti-German hysteria, and the explosive expansion of both the economy and federal power, including shocking suspensions of constitutional protections that planted the seeds of today’s national security state. Here also are revealing portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Robert La Follette, Eugene Debs, and John J. “Black Jack” Pershing, among others, as well as European leaders such as “Welsh Wizard” David Lloyd George of Britain, “Tiger” Georges Clemenceau of France, and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
Meyer interweaves the many strands of his story into a gripping narrative that casts new light on one of the darkest, most forgotten corners of U.S. history. In the grand tradition of his earlier work A World Undone—which centered on the European perspective—The World Remade adds a new, uniquely American dimension to our understanding of the seminal conflict of the twentieth century.
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"Penguin Random House: ""The World Remade: America in World War I"" - G.J. Meyer, mwandishi wa vitabu vya kihistoria, anaelezea jinsi Marekani ilivyoshiriki katika Vita Kuu ya Ulimwengu ya Kwanza, na jinsi ilivyoshiriki katika vita vya pili vya dunia, na jinsi ilivyoshiriki katika vita vya pili vya dunia." The World Remade ni simulizi la kuvutia la kuingilia kati kwa Marekani katika Vita vya Kwanza vya Ulimwengu, ikihusisha siasa zenye msukosuko na takwimu za kihistoria ambazo zilifafanua enzi na kuunda siku zijazo. Wakati wa kutangaza vita, Marekani ilikuwa nchi ndogo zaidi kati ya mataifa makubwa na yenye nguvu za kijeshi dhaifu zaidi. Mnamo Novemba 11, 1918, wakati mapigano yalipoisha, Marekani ilikuwa nchi tajiri zaidi duniani na yenye nguvu zaidi. Kwa kuwa Rais Woodrow Wilson alikuwa mwenye msimamo wa kimabavu, G.J. Meyer aliwaongoza wasomaji kutoka kwa majadiliano makali juu ya ushiriki wa Marekani, kupitia mashambulizi na udanganyifu ambao ulituingiza katika mapigano, hadi kwenye uwanja wa vita yenyewe na matokeo ya mapigano. Kuingia kwa Marekani katika Vita Kuu Kulisaidia kuwezesha kushindwa kwa Ujerumani ambayo ilikuwa imeepuka Uingereza, Ufaransa, Urusi, na Italia katika miaka mitatu na nusu ya mauaji ya kutisha. Ushindi huo, kwa upande wake, ulisababisha mkataba wa amani usiofaa, wenye kulipiza kisasi sana, hivi kwamba ulimwengu uliwekwa kwenye njia ya mapigano yenye umwagaji damu zaidi miaka ishirini tu baadaye. "Meyer anaelezea ""kuvunjika kwa muundo wa jadi wa darasa, kuongezeka kwa harakati za maendeleo na za wafanyakazi, wimbi la hysteria ya kupinga Ujerumani, na upanuzi wa mlipuko wa uchumi na nguvu za shirikisho, pamoja na kusimamishwa kwa ulinzi wa kikatiba ambao ulipanda mbegu za serikali ya usalama wa kitaifa ya leo.""" Pia kuna picha za Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Robert La Follette, Eugene Debs, na John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, miongoni mwa wengine, pamoja na viongozi wa Ulaya kama vile "Welsh Wizard" David Lloyd George wa Uingereza, "Tiger" Georges Clemenceau wa Ufaransa, na Kaiser Wilhelm II wa Ujerumani. Meyer anaunganisha nyuzi nyingi za hadithi yake katika hadithi ya kuvutia ambayo inatoa mwangaza mpya juu ya moja ya pembe nyeusi zaidi, zilizosahaulika zaidi za historia ya Marekani. Katika utamaduni mkubwa wa kazi yake ya awali A World Undone - ambayo ililenga mtazamo wa Ulaya - The World Remade inaongeza mwelekeo mpya, wa kipekee wa Amerika kwa uelewa wetu wa mgogoro wa karne ya ishirini. Vitu vyote hutumwa kutoka Duka la Makumbusho huko Kansas City, Missouri. Vitu vya bidhaa vitatolewa ndani ya siku tatu baada ya kuweka agizo. Muda wa kawaida wa usafirishaji utatofautiana kulingana na njia ya usafirishaji iliyochaguliwa wakati wa kuangalia nje. Bidhaa inaweza kurudishwa ndani ya siku 14 za ununuzi kwa malipo ya awali. Kwa habari zaidi kuhusu sera zetu, tembelea ukurasa wetu wa Usafirishaji na Kurudisha.