The world remade: America in World War I

Part one. The crooked road to war

December 1918: Apotheosis ; Background: how it happened

Neutrality the Wilson way ; Background: coming of age

Quickly to the brink ; Background: the tortoise and the hare

Many sacred principles ; Background: mystery voyage

Marked cards and a stacked deck ; Background: choosing sides

"A dangerous thing;;to inflame a people" ; Background: the war of words

and pictures

Onward Christian soldiers ; Background: troublemaker

Why ; Background: over there

the war as of April 1917

"A message of death"

Part two. The price

Taking charge ; Background: going dry

"Skin-deep dollar patriotism" ; Background: destiny's child

Cracking down ; Background: three faces of labor

Welcome to France ; Background: Buffalo soldiers

"A moblike madness" ; Background: "disgusting creatures"

The law of selfishness ; Background: the war, too, changes

The last roll of the iron dice ; Background: the war of the air

and of the future

Deadlocked no more ; Background: death from a new direction

The tide turns ; Background: eggs loaded with dynamite

An army at last ; Background: "a soldier's soldier"

In at the kill

Part three. Sowing dragons' teeth

The world the war made ; Background: lost?

Compromise or betrayal? ; Background: strange bedfellows

"Hell's dirtiest work" ; Background: the Palmer raids

"The door is closed"

Aftermath: "Now it's all over"

Appendix: Woodrow Wilson's Program for Peace.

Introduction

The crooked road to war

The price

Sowing dragon's teeth

Aftermath: "Now it is all over"

Appendix: Woodrow Wilson's Program for Peace.