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Bibliographic Essay By far the most extensive bibliography is Thomas J. Knock’s “The United States, World War I, and the Peace Settlement, 1914–1920,” in American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, 2 vols., ed. Robert L. Beisner (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2003), 1:665–735. Superior accounts of World War I include Martin Gilbert, The First World War: A Complete History (New York: Henry Holt, 1994); John Keegan, The First World War (New York: Knopf, 1999); Correlli Barnett, The Great War (London: BBC, 2003); and David Stevenson, Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy (New York: Basic Books, 2004). To Arms (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001), volume 1 of Hew Strachan ’s extremely detailed The First World War, focuses on the year 1914 but covers topics (e.g., Africa, East Asia, the Near East) that go beyond it. Among the able treatments of America during this time are John Whiteclay Chambers II, The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1900–1917 (New York: St. Martin’s, 1980); John Milton Cooper Jr., Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900–1920 (New York: Norton, 1990); and David Traxel, Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898–1920 (New York: Knopf, 2006). Over Here, 1914–1918, volume 5 of journalist Mark Sullivan’s Our Times, 6 vols. (New York: Scribner, 1926–35), is impressionistic but effectively captures contemporary moods. Deftly drawn portraits of major figures are found in Holger H. Herwig and Neil M. Heyman, Biographical Dictionary of World War I (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982). Scholars dealing with the Wilson presidency during the neutrality period must begin with volumes 30–41 of Arthur S. Link, ed., The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 69 vols. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1966–93). Wilson gives his prepresidential views on policymaking in Constitutional Government in the United States (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1908). Also crucial are Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914–1917, all titled Supplement: The World War (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1928–31); and volume 1 of The Lansing Papers, 2 vols. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1939–40) in the Foreign Relations series. Arthur S. Link offers by far the most thorough account of the president’s actions in volumes 3–5 of his Wilson, 5 vols. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1947–65): The 349 350 Bibliographic Essay Struggle for Neutrality, 1914–1915; Confusions and Crises, 1915–1916; and Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916–1917. See as well Link’s The Higher Realism of Woodrow Wilson (Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1971), a series of previously published essays; and Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace (Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson , 1979), a rewriting of his Wilson the Diplomatist: A Look at His Major Foreign Policies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1957). A comprehensive narrative is offered in Link’s Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910–1917 (New York: Harper, 1954). Link’s informal reflections are found in an interview in volume 2 of John A. Garraty, Interpreting American History: Conversations with Historians (New York: Macmillan, 1970), 121–44. Link is usually sympathetic to Wilson, though he makes some negative observations. His interpretation is critiqued in Robert D. Accinelli, “Confronting the Modern World: Woodrow Wilson and Harry S. Truman—Link’s Case for Wilson the Diplomatist,” Reviews in American History 9 (September 1981): 285–94. There are several one-volume lives of the twenty-eighth president. John Milton Cooper Jr.’s Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 2009) is generally in accord with his subject; it promises to be definitive. Volumes 5–6 of Ray Stannard Baker’s Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, 8 vols. (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1927–39), titled Neutrality, 1914–1915 and Facing War, 1915–1917, offer a far more critical view. The chief executive finds support in such able works as Arthur Walworth ’s Woodrow Wilson, 2nd ed., rev. (Baltimore: Penguin, 1969); August Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1991); Kendrick A. Clements, Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman, rev. ed. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999); and John A. Thompson, Woodrow Wilson (London: Longman, 2002). Alexander L. George and Juliette L. George, Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study (New York: John Day, 1956), attempt a psychoanalytical study, with mixed results. Ray Stannard Baker’s autobiography, American Chronicle (New York: Scribner, 1945), covers his encounters as a journalist with Wilson and is supplemented by Merrill...

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