“The first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on public information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of the globe.” (Sub-title) Mr Creel charges Congress with intent to keep any final statement of achievements from the public, and says “It was to defeat this purpose that this book has been written. It is not a compilation of incident and opinion, but a record and a chronicle.” The book is in three parts: The domestic section; The foreign section; Demobilization. Newton D. Baker’s address delivered at a dinner in honor of Mr Creel is printed as a foreword and various letters and other documents, including a list of the publications of the committee, are given in an appendix. The book is fully illustrated with portraits and is indexed.
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“Of course he writes in journalese; he would not be Creel if he did not; but his story of the committee’s work has the rush of a bullet, the direct and convincing quality of journalese when it is written by a man who knows the art.”
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CREEL, GEORGE. War, the world, and Wilson. *$2 (2c) Harper 940.373
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A book written as a defense of President Wilson and as a plea for the ratification of the peace treaty and the acceptance of the league of nations. It was our pledges that won the war, the author states, and our repudiation of those pledges that is losing the peace. Among the chapters are: The man and the president; Neutrality; “Strong men”; “The Roosevelt divisions”; The case of Leonard Wood; America’s moral offensives; Why the president went to Paris; “The big four”; What Germany must pay; Shantung and hypocrisy; The Adriatic tangle; Were the fourteen points ignored? How the treaty was killed; The great American tradition.