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Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner

Autor Charles E. Neu
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 ian 2015

Bazându-ne pe arhivele extinse ale Casei Albe și pe corespondența diplomatică a epocii, analizăm în volumul Colonel House ascensiunea unei figuri care a modelat politica internațională a secolului XX din umbră. Charles E. Neu oferă o biografie definitorie de 714 pagini, publicată de Oxford University Press, care recalibrează înțelegerea noastră asupra administrației Wilson. Notăm cu interes modul în care autorul demontează mitul antagonismului simplist dintre președinte și consilierul său, preferând să exploreze complexitatea unui parteneriat neobișnuit care a definit poziția Statelor Unite în noua ordine mondială de după Primul Război Mondial.

Descoperim aici un portret nuanțat al lui Edward M. House, un tactician ambițios din Texas care a devenit arhitectul din culise al celor Paisprezece Puncte. Textul extinde cadrul propus de Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand de Godfrey Hodgson cu date noi din perioada negocierilor de la Paris, oferind o perspectivă mai critică asupra metodelor lui House. Deși acesta era un diplomat imaginativ, Neu subliniază o vulnerabilitate metodologică: tendința de a exagera importanța relațiilor personale în fața curentelor istorice rigide. Structura narativă urmărește meticulos transformarea lui House din intermediar politic în reprezentant personal al președintelui în Europa, culminând cu ruptura amară din iunie 1919. Față de abordarea centrată pe putere din Woodrow Wilson de John A. Thompson, lucrarea de față pune accentul pe „sfera intangibilă a relațiilor umane” și pe modul în care managementul loialităților a influențat deciziile de stat. Este o resursă academică esențială care restabilește locul acestui consilier enigmatic în centrul istoriei moderne.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195045505
ISBN-10: 0195045505
Pagini: 714
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 51 mm
Greutate: 1.14 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această biografie este indispensabilă pentru cercetătorii istoriei americane și ai diplomației secolului XX. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care deciziile globale sunt influențate de parteneriate private și negocieri informale. Charles E. Neu oferă nu doar o cronică politică, ci și o analiză psihologică a unei prietenii care a schimbat cursul Primului Război Mondial, fiind ideală pentru cei care studiază mecanismele puterii din spatele scenei.


Despre autor

Charles E. Neu este profesor emerit și fost președinte al departamentului de istorie de la Brown University. Specialist recunoscut în istoria relațiilor externe ale Statelor Unite, acesta a publicat lucrări fundamentale precum „The Troubled Encounter” și „An Uncertain Friendship”, concentrându-se pe interacțiunile diplomatice dintre SUA și Japonia. Expertiza sa în epoca wilsoniană este consolidată de coordonarea volumului de eseuri în onoarea lui Arthur S. Link, cel mai important editor al documentelor lui Woodrow Wilson. În Colonel House, Neu sintetizează decenii de cercetare academică pentru a oferi o biografie echilibrată și documentată riguros.


Descriere

A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today; yet he was one of the most influential figures of the Wilson presidency. Wilson's chief political advisor, House played a key role in international diplomacy, and had a significant hand in crafting the Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference. Though the intimate friendship between the president and his advisor ultimately unraveled in the wake of these negotiations, House's role in the Wilson administration had a lasting impact on 20th century international politics. In this seminal biography, Charles E. Neu details the life of "Colonel" House, a Texas landowner who rose to become one of the century's greatest political operators. Ambitious and persuasive, House worked largely behind the scenes, developing ties of loyalty and using patronage to rally party workers behind his candidates. In 1911 he met Woodrow Wilson, and almost immediately the two formed what would become one of the most famous friendships in American political history.House became a high-level political intermediary in the Wilson administration, proving particularly adept at managing the intangible realm of human relations. After World War I erupted, House, realizing the complexity of the struggle and the dangers and opportunities it posed for the United States, began traveling to and from Europe as the president's personal representative. Eventually he helped Wilson recognize the need to devise a way to end the war that would place the United States at the center of a new world order. In this balanced account, Neu shows that while House was a resourceful and imaginative diplomat, his analysis of wartime politics was erratic. He relied too heavily on personal contacts, often exaggerating his accomplishments and missing the larger historical forces that shaped the policies of the warring powers. Ultimately, as the Paris Peace Conference unfolded, differences appeared between Wilson and his counselor. Their divergent views on the negotiations led to a bitter split, and after the president left France in June of 1919, he would never see House again.Despite this break, Neu refutes the idea that Wilson and House were antagonists. They shared the same beliefs and aspirations and were, Neu shows, part of an unusual partnership. As an organizer, tactician, and confidant, House helped to make possible Wilson's achievements, and this impressive biography restores the enigmatic counselor to his place at the center of that presidency.

Recenzii

Neu has used House's diary and other papers to craft a remarkably vivid account of the political operator's life... Neu's engrossing narrative has such immediacy that readers share House's hurt and disappointment when Wilson abruptly ended their close friendship... A significant, brightly written American story.
Colonel House is an enduring analysis of one of the most complicated and important power relationships in American history, indeed in world history. This is a monumental work that stand the test of time.
A wonderful book and gripping all the way through. Charles Neu has done a splendid job.
Charles Neu's long-anticipated biography of Colonel Edward House is a major achievement that has been worth the wait. The research is exhaustive. The analysis and evaluations are judicious, fully persuasive. The portraits of personalities and depictions of diplomatic vignettes are vivid. Neu's assessment of the U.S. political scene and the international relations of the Woodrow Wilson era is far-ranging and impressive. Readers now have available a comprehensive and enthralling study of one of the commanding figures in twentieth-century American history.
At long last, Edward M. House has found the biographer he deserves. Charles Neu employs a sharply critical eye in winnowing fact from fantasy about the man whom contemporaries could call both America's 'finest diplomatic brain' and 'that devious son of a bitch.'
A powerful and fascinating biography of a powerful man. Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson were unlikely partners, but they shared an interest in American politics in an era in which the United States was emerging as a world power. A great read for cold winter nights or a day at the beach.
Neu has written a detailed, well-researched, definitive biography of House. Although other works have been written about House and Wilson, this book combines their lives into one volume (with the focus on House and his place in history) and affirms the important role of Texas politicians and leaders in the history of the United States.

Notă biografică

Charles E. Neu is Professor Emeritus of History at Brown University. He is the author of many books, including America's Lost War: Vietnam, 1945-1975.