To End All Wars, New Edition: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order

by Thomas Knock, Thomas Knock (Afterword)

Overview

A close look at Woodrow Wilson’s political thought and international diplomacy

In the widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wilson’s epic quest for a new world order. This book follows Wilson’s thought and diplomacy from his policy toward revolutionary Mexico, through his dramatic call for “Peace without Victory” in World War I, to the Senate’s rejection of the League of Nations. Throughout, Knock reinterprets the origins of internationalism in American politics, sweeping away the view that isolationism was the cause of Wilson’s failure and revealing the role of competing visions of internationalism—conservative and progressive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691191614
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	03/19/2019
Edition description:	New
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Thomas J. Knock is Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of The Rise of a Prairie Statesman and coauthor of The Crisis of American Foreign Policy (both Princeton).

Table of Contents

Preface to New Edition vii

Preface xix

List of Illustrations xxxi

1 A Political Autobiography 3

2 Wilson and the Age of Socialist Inquiry 15

3 Searching for a New Diplomacy 31

4 The Political Origins of Progressive and Conservative Internationalism 48

5 The Turning Point 70

6 Raising a New Flag: The League and the Coalition of 1916 85

7 "All the Texts of the Rights of Man": Manifestoes for Peace and War 105

8 "If the War Is Too Strong": The Travail of Progressive Internationalism and the Fourteen Points 123

9 Waiting for Wilson: The Wages of Delay and Repression 148

10 "The War Thus Comes to an End" 167

11 The Stern Covenanter 194

12 "A Practical Document and a Humane Document" 210

13 "The Thing Reaches the Depths of Tragedy" 227

14 Wilson's Fate 246

Epilogue, Echoes from Pueblo 271

Abbreviations 277

Notes 279

Bibliography 341

Index 359

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Thomas Knock brings Woodrow Wilson, America's most misunderstood president, into the light and shows why he remains one of our greatest. Wilson was the first president to foresee a path to peace and no leader after him has yet found a better way."—Elizabeth Cobbs, author of American Umpire

"Monumental. . . . An enormously impressive work."—Charles Neu, Brown University

"This superbly researched study . . . demands that we see Wilson in a genuinely new framework, and succeeds admirably."—Gary J. Ostrower, American Historical Review

"A landmark when it was first published, To End All Wars remains one of the most important books in the field. There is no better time to reissue this classic than during the age of Trump, when the Wilsonian vision of progressive internationalism faces its most dire threat."—Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy

"An enlightening and valuable introduction to the birth of [a] noble vision."—Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Times Literary Supplement

"To End All Wars is the wisest and most provocative study of Woodrow Wilson to be published in the hellish century its subject was trying to save. This book's reissue in our own volatile century is not just welcome, but imperative."—Trygve Throntveit, author of Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment

"Fresh analysis of Wilson, his times, and the evolution of his international position. . . . Sharp, succinct, and expert."—Kirkus Reviews

Editorial Reviews

"Indeed, embers of interest in Wilson and his relevance have been glowing since the Cold War’s end, and none more brightly than Thomas J. Knock’s To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order, recently reissued with a new author’s preface by Princeton University Press. . . . Thirty-odd years after its original conception and writing, To End All Wars has reemerged in historiographical and political landscapes that remain, in significant and disappointing ways, largely unchanged since the early 1990s.

"—-Trygve Throntveit, H-Diplo

From the Publisher