![]() ![]() What is different here is that a husband-and-wife Shelf of books on the politics, propaganda, industrialization, racism, injustices and other aspects of the war years, document what an unsatisfactory legacy remained when the shooting stopped. Coffman, and Ronald Schaffer's ''America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State,'' along with a lengthy War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I,'' by Edward M. Kennedy's ''Over Here: The First World War and American Society,'' ''The Nothing in that oversimplified summary is new, nor is much in ''The Last Days of Innocence,'' which goes over this terrain. 11, 1918, about the war to end all wars, other than that it had ended. Through ineptitude and ignorance at home and the rapacity of its allies abroad, there was not much to celebrate on Nov. The downside of the United States contribution to the victory, aside from humiliations at home and abroad, is that America, with all its industrial capacity, lost the peace, despite the grand designs of President Lthough wars are usually won by the least incompetent side, history has made allowances for the rich in human or material resources. ![]() The unsatisfactory legacy of America's participation in World War I ![]()
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