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Article: What Wilson wrought.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I By Thomas Fleming Basic Books. 576 pp. $35.00.
THOMAS FLEMING knows a lot about the American war experience in 1917-18, and his latest book is filled with wonderful quotations, salient facts and deft characterizations. Aiming at the general public, he does not bring much that is new to the table, but he tells a gripping story many will find unfamiliar. Fleming succeeds in showing how President Woodrow Wilson, through his megalomania, rich fantasy life and colossal incompetence helped turn the Allied victory in World War I into a shattering political defeat that condemned the world to a far more terrible war.