World War I and America: Told By the Americans Who Lived It

World War I and America: Told By the Americans Who Lived It (LOA #289) (Library of America, 289)

For the centenary of America's entry into World War I, A. Scott Berg presents aÂ landmark anthology of American writing from the cataclysmic conflict that setÂ the course of the 20th century.

Few Americans appreciate the significance and intensity of America'sÂ experience of World War I, the global cataclysm that transformed the modernÂ world. Published to mark the centenary of the U.S. entry into the conflict,Â World War I: Told by the Americans Who Lived It brings together a wide rangeÂ of writings by American participants and observers to tell a vivid and dramaticÂ firsthand story from the outbreak of war in 1914 through the Armistice, the ParisÂ Peace Conference, and the League of Nations debate. The eighty-eight men and women collected in the volume--soldiers, airmen, nurses, diplomats, statesmen,Â political activists, journalists--provide unique insights into how Americans ofÂ every stripe perceived the war, why they supported or opposed intervention, howÂ they experienced the nightmarish reality of industrial warfare, and how the conflictÂ changed American life. Richard Harding Davis witnesses the burning of Louvain;Â Edith Wharton tours the front in the Argonne and Flanders; John Reed reports fromÂ Serbia and Bukovina; Charles Lauriat describes the sinking of the Lusitania; LeslieÂ Davis records the Armenian genocide; Jane Addams and Emma Goldman protestÂ against militarism; Victor Chapman and Edmond Genet fly with the LafayetteÂ Escadrille; Floyd Gibbons, Hervey Allen, and Edward Lukens experience theÂ ferocity of combat in Belleau Wood, Fismette, and the Meuse-Argonne; and EllenÂ La Motte and Mary Borden unflinchingly examine the "human wreckage" broughtÂ into military hospitals. W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, andÂ Claude McKay protest the racist treatment of black soldiers and the violenceÂ directed at African Americans on the home front; Carrie Chapman Catt connectsÂ the war with the fight for women suffrage; Willa Cather explores the impact of theÂ war on rural Nebraska; Henry May recounts a deadly influenza outbreak onboard aÂ troop transport; Oliver Wendell Holmes weighs the limits of free speech inÂ wartime; Woodrow Wilson envisions a world without war. A coda presents threeÂ iconic literary works by Ernest Hemingway, E. E. Cummings, and John Dos Passos.

With an introduction and headnotes by A. Scott Berg, brief biographies of the writers, and endpaper maps.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2017-02-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598535143

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2017-02-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598535143

World War I and America: Told By the Americans Who Lived It (LOA #289) (Library of America, 289)