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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Alexander Sedlmaier. Deutschlandbilder und Deutschlandpolitik: Studien zur Wilson-Administration (1913–1921). (Historische Mitteilungen-Beihefte, number 51.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2003. Pp. 386. €70.00.

In his dissertation, Alexander Sedlmaier seeks to chart "images of Germany" implicit in letters, speeches, and other documents by President Woodrow Wilson and members of his administration from 1913 to 1921. Sedlmaier takes issue with authors who have stressed the president's neutrality and points out that Wilson, even before 1918, was informed by negative "images" of Germany. He explains that Wilson envisioned for himself the role of a "referee" at a peace conference. Taking a hard stance toward Germany in 1918 aligned him with the Allies and seemed to advance these ambitions. Although Wilson, before the armistice, was ambivalent about who was responsible for the outbreak of war, he blamed Germany and its allies thereafter. The author claims that, in Wilson's view, Germany increasingly turned into an embodiment of evil. His main argument is that the president did not develop these views after the armistice but had harbored such opinions before 1918. Sedlmaier concludes that Wilson's simplified and binary views helped to prepare the ground for the hostile atmosphere of the Espionage Act and the Red Scare (p. 357).

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