“Often makes a good case, but weakens its effect by trying to prove all the reason on one side.”
+ − Booklist 17:28 O ’20
“It is a much less effective campaign document than Ray Stannard Baker’s account of the peace conference or Professor Dodd’s biography of Wilson because it is too obviously prejudiced and recklessly overstated.”
− + Ind 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 70w Review 3:74 Jl 21 ’20 270w
“The book as a whole is a brilliant political tour de force.”
+ R of Rs 62:220 Ag ’20 460w
“Mr Creel is too much inclined to produce a campaign document and to hold that the democratic departments could not make mistakes. The most effective part of the book is that which shows how a republican clique in the Senate aided the imperialists of Europe by undermining the president’s influence while he was at the conference. Mr Creel is less satisfactory in his reply to Mr Keynes. Here his temper is violent and rhetorical.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 6 ’20 1050w
“Here at last is a straightforward statement of the fundamental facts over which some controversies of the past four years have raged.”