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The Morgan Loans, Baku Oil, and Woodrow Wilson: How Valid Were John Dos Passos’s Claims in 1919?
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 49, Number 3, September 2016
- pp. 127-141
- 10.1353/mos.2016.a630348
- Article
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This essay examines the validity of three political claims in John Dos Passos’s novel, 1919: that the Morgan loans forced the United States into World War I; that “oil was trumps” at the Peace Conference; and that President Wilson was “trimmed” by Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, destroying his liberal peace objectives.