| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience. By Robert H. Zieger. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xxii, 273 pp. Cloth, $27.95, ISBN 0-8476-9644-8. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8476-9645-6.)

World War I resulted in a Pyrrhic victory, as the Allied forces gained little for such horrific loss of life. Despite America's relatively short participation in the conflict, the war did bring dramatic transformations in political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic spheres in the United States. While not losing sight of America's military role or the senseless destruction of the war, Robert H. Zieger's historical synthesis successfully describes how World War I directly affected the American experience. The author carefully follows the country as it geared up for a major economic/industrial mobilization, conscripted millions of men into service, sold the war with new propaganda methods, and emerged as a leading world power. The author analyzes President Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy, explores key wartime alterations in Progressive ideology, and efficiently demonstrates how the full force of modernity brought positive and negative changes to the nation, particularly in matters of class, race, and gender.

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