What Wilson Did at Paris, by Ray Stannard Baker
Author : Ray Stannard Baker
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Paris Peace Conference
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Author : Ray Stannard Baker
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Paris Peace Conference
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Author : Ray Stannard Baker
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Paris Peace Conference
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Author : John Maxwell Hamilton
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0807144258
At the height of World War I, in the winter of 1917--1918, one of the Progressive era's most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker (1870--1946), set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent for the New Republic and the New York World, Baker assessed public opinion in Europe about the war and postwar settlement. American officials in the White House and State Department held Baker's wide-ranging, trenchant reports in high regard. After the war, Baker remained in government service as the president's press secretary at the Paris Peace Conference, where the Allied victors dictated the peace terms to the defeated Central Powers. Baker's position gave him an extraordinary vantage point from which to view history in the making. He kept a voluminous diary of his service to the president, beginning with his voyage to Europe and lasting through his time as press secretary. Unlike Baker's published books about Wilson, leavened by much reflection, his diary allows modern readers unfiltered impressions of key moments in history by a thoughtful inside observer. Published here for the first time, this long-neglected source includes an introduction by John Maxwell Hamilton and Robert Mann that places Baker and his diary into historical context.
Author : Ray Stannard Baker
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Page : 396 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 1908
Category : African Americans
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Author : Ray Stannard Baker
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Paris Peace Conference
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Author : Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813926544
"In The President and His Biographer: Woodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker, the renowned historian Merrill D. Peterson looks not just at Wilson's life and career, but also at the way Wilson was represented by Baker and other biographers, as well as by the media. Rather than addressing the voluminous Wilson historiography, Peterson bases his biographical study on primary sources - in particular the sixty-nine volumes of his Papers, edited by Arthur Link, and those compiled by Baker - providing a vivid and detailed narrative of our nation's twenty-eighth president."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ray Stannard Baker
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Ray Stannard Baker
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Page : 600 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Paris Peace Conference
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Author : Ray Stannard 1870-1946 Baker
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781371313135
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Author : Charles E. Neu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199391440
A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today; yet he was one of the most influential figures of the Wilson presidency. Wilson's chief political advisor, House played a key role in international diplomacy, and had a significant hand in crafting the Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference. Though the intimate friendship between the president and his advisor ultimately unraveled in the wake of these negotiations, House's role in the Wilson administration had a lasting impact on 20th century international politics. 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. House became a high-level political intermediary in the Wilson administration, proving particularly adept at managing the intangible realm of human relations. After World War I erupted, House, realizing the complexity of the struggle and the dangers and opportunities it posed for the United States, began traveling to and from Europe as the president's personal representative. Eventually he helped Wilson recognize the need to devise a way to end the war that would place the United States at the center of a new world order. In this balanced account, Neu shows that while House was a resourceful and imaginative diplomat, his analysis of wartime politics was erratic. He relied too heavily on personal contacts, often exaggerating his accomplishments and missing the larger historical forces that shaped the policies of the warring powers. Ultimately, as the Paris Peace Conference unfolded, differences appeared between Wilson and his counselor. Their divergent views on the negotiations led to a bitter split, and after the president left France in June of 1919, he would never see House again. Despite this break, Neu refutes the idea that Wilson and House were antagonists. They shared the same beliefs and aspirations and were, Neu shows, part of an unusual partnership. As an organizer, tactician, and confidant, House helped to make possible Wilson's achievements, and this impressive biography restores the enigmatic counselor to his place at the center of that presidency.