The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath

A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath.

The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American history. This timely book is a reexamination of America's first global experience as we commemorate World War I's centennial. The U.S. had steered clear of the European conflagration known as the Great War for more than two years, but President Woodrow Wilson rel...