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Synopsis
Product Description[Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.]
[Read by George C. Scott]
[Edited by Wendy McElroy, Produced by Pat Childs]
By the turn of the twentieth century, the United States had evolved from a British colony into an international power. As a result of the Spanish-American War, America had acquired colonies in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as a taste for international politics.
Then the First World War erupted. As it dragged on, Americans fiercely debated US involvement; the nation had a deep tradition of avoiding foreign wars. But while the Spanish-American War had challenged this tradition, the First World War would shatter it.
President Woodrow Wilson called World War I ''a war to make the world safe for democracy.'' But the conflict brought neither safety nor democracy -- instead, governments restricted personal and economic liberties to better pursue the war. In Russia, the Bolsheviks would translate an antiwar groundswell into a communist revolution and revolutionaries around the world would look to them as a model.
Even the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended the war between Germany and the Allies, brought no security. Of the treaty and its harsh terms, a French representative declared, ''This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.''
'The United States at War' series is a collection of presentations that review the political, economic, and social tensions that have erupted in military conflict and examine how the conflict resolved, or failed to resolve, those tensions. *This audiobook edition combines Part 1 and Part 2 of
World War 1 by Ralph Raico into this one package.
About the Author
Author Bio:
RALPH RAICO is professor emeritus of European history at Buffalo State College in New York. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, where the head of his dissertation committee was Friedrich Hayek. He has written numerous articles and essays in scholarly journals and is the translator of Ludwig von Mises'
Liberalism and of essays contained in Hayek's
Collected Works. Dr. Raico was editor of the
New Individualist Review and senior editor of
Inquiry. He has lectured throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada and is a senior faculty member at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Reader Bio:
GEORGE CAMPBELL SCOTT (1927-1999) was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film
Patton, as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's
Dr. Strangelove, and as Ebeneezer Scrooge in Clive Donner's adaptation of
A Christmas Carol.
Book Details
Published
November 1, 2012
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format
Audio Compact Disc - Unabridged
ISBN
9781470825256