The Last Days of Innocence: America at War,
Then during the early battles in Europe the American troops were so poorly trained, equipped, and supported that's it hard to believe that they had any success. As time passed the kinks got worked out of the system and efficiencies improved. Lessons learned in WWI provided a blueprint for improved mobilization thirty years later for WWII.
From the American perspective the August April portion of the war was a distant event to avoid. However, avoiding the so called "distant" war didn't mean avoiding support of the Allied side through finance and trade (almost none with Germany because of British control of the seas).
President Wilson had won reelection as the peace candidate, and he was loth to enter the war. But Germany's decision to resume open submarine warfare on
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Writing the biography of Nikolaus Pevsner made me acutely aware of the importance of understanding what England has gained from being open to migration – of all kinds. Pevsner explicitly denied that he was a refugee: he was coming to a country, aiming to contribute to it, not just running from another one. He became a pillar of the English art establishment without ever losing his German identity, and it is this combination/contradiction which makes him interesting. A museum which airs all the issues around migration can only help to improve the prospects for successful, productive immigration in the future.
Susie Harries
Susie Harries was born in in London, where she now lives with her husband Meirion and two sons. She read classics and classical philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge and St Anne’s College, Oxford, before working variously for a publisher, a concert agency, the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption, and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), where she produced the RSA report Drugs – Facing Facts (). She is an Associate, and has been an Associate Fellow, of Newnham.
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In The Last Days of Innocence Meirion and Susie Harries describe World War I as the portal through which the United States stepped into the 20th century. As a relatively naive and still young nation, the United States entered the European war to defend ideals of democracy and self-determination. It emerged from the conflict not as a clear victor but as a nation transformed: militarized, nationalistic, rife with a hatred of "foreigners," and saddled by class and racial divisions. The Harries illustrate how mobilization for "total war" altered America, placing great emphasis on the growth of the federal government's role in American society and the often maligned sacrifices made by Americans. Five million men were conscripted and $33 billion dollars spent for a war that did little to promote American ideals or interests. The authors examined archival material from American, British, and French sources, and this lends complexity and originality to their work. The Last Days of Innocence is a challenging, at times controversial, revisionist account of America's involvement in the Great War and its lasting effects on American government and society.
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