Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations

by John Milton Cooper Jr.

Book Overview

The fight over the League of Nations at the end of World War I was one of the great political debates in American history. President Woodrow Wilson, himself a key architect of the League, was uncompromising in his belief that the United States would rise to a position of leadership in the peaceful union of states that he had envisaged. A masterful politician and distinguished theorist, Wilson was unprepared for the persuasiveness of his opponents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521807867
• ISBN13: 9780521807869
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"