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John A. Thompson,
Woodrow Wilson
(London, 2002), a balanced and thoughtful survey. Biographies of other key figures include William C. Widenor,
Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy
(Berkeley, Calif., 1980), Godfrey Hodgson,
Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House
(New Haven, Conn., 2006), and Michael Kazin,
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
(New York, 2006), a needed revision of a much maligned secretary of state. Wilson's interventions in Central America and the Caribbean are critically analyzed in Bruce J. Calder,
The Impact of Intervention: The Dominican Republic During the United States Occupation of 1916–1926
(Austin, Tex., 1984), Hans Schmidt,
The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915–1934
(New Brunswick, N.J., 1985), MaryA. Renda,
Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 2001), Brenda Gayle Plummer,
Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment
(Athens, Ga., 1992), and Michael Gobat,
Confronting an American Dream: Nicaragua Under U.S. Imperial Rule
(Durham, N.C., 2005). Wilson's involvement with Mexico is broadly covered in Mark T. Gilderhus,
Diplomacy and Revolution: U.S.-Mexican Relations Under Wilson and Carranza
(Tucson, Ariz., 1977). Robert E. Quirk,
An Affair of Honor: Woodrow Wilson and the Occupation of Veracruz
(Lexington, Ky., 1962) is readable and still useful. Friedrich Katz,
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
(Stanford, Calif., 1998) is authoritative and much broader in coverage than might appear. John Mason Hart,
Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War
(Berkeley, Calif., 2002) is a first-rate study by a leading scholar of the Mexican revolution. The United States' entry into World War I was controversial from the outset. Ernest R. May,
The World War and American Isolation, 1914–1917
(Chicago, 1959), based on multi-archival research, and Ross Gregory,
The Origins of American Intervention in the First World War
(New York, 1971) are still valuable on U.S. involvement in the war. John W. Coogan,
The End of Neutrality: The United States, Britain, and Maritime Rights, 1899–1915
(Ithaca, N.Y., 1981) takes a broader approach to neutral rights issues and is more critical of U.S. policy. Anti-war opposition is analyzed in Frances H. Early,
A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I
(Syracuse, N.Y., 1997). The armistice is covered in Bullitt Lowry,
Armistice 1918
(Kent, Ohio, 1997) and Klaus Schwabe,
Woodrow Wilson, Revolutionary Germany, and Peacemaking, 1918–1919: Missionary Diplomacy and the Realities of Power,
translated by Rita and Robert Kimber (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1985). A readable recent study of the Versailles peacemaking is Margaret Macmillan,
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
(New York, 2001). Arno J. Mayer,
Politics and Diplomacy at Peacemaking: Containment and Counterrevolution at Versailles, 1918–1919
(New York, 1967) is sweeping in scope and bold in interpretation. Erez Manela,
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
(New York, 2007) skillfully analyzes the reactions of oppressed people worldwide to Wilson's diplomacy. The problem of Bolshevik Russia at the peace conference is discussed in N. Gordon Levin Jr.,
Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution
(New York, 1968). The interventions in North Russia and Siberia are covered in Betty Miller Unterberger,
America's Siberian Expedition: A Study of National Policy
(Durham, N.C., 1959) and David Fogelsong,
America's Secret War Against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War
(Chapel Hill, N.C.,1996). David W. McFadden,
Alternative Paths: Soviets and Americans, 1917–1920
(New York, 1992) deals with official and informal contacts during these years. Unterberger's
The United States, Revolutionary Russia, and the Rise of Czechoslovakia
(Chapel Hill,