Americas Great War, Robert H. Zieger
Americas Great War, Robert H. Zieger
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America's Great War
World War I and the American Experience

Author: Robert H. Zieger

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 13 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/13/2020


Synopsis

Bestsellers by Niall Ferguson and John Keegan have created tremendous popular interest in World War I. In America's Great War prominent historian Robert H. Zieger examines the causes, prosecution, and legacy of this bloody conflict from a frequently overlooked perspective, that of American involvement. This is the first book to illuminate both America's dramatic influence on the war and the war's considerable impact upon our nation.

Zieger's engaging narrative provides vivid descriptions of the famous battles and diplomatic maneuvering, while also chronicling America's rise to prominence within the postwar world. On the domestic front, Zieger details how the war forever altered American politics and society by creating the National Security State, generating powerful new instruments of social control, bringing about innovative labor and social welfare programs, and redefining civil liberties and race relations. America's Great War promises to become the definitive history of America and World War I.

About Robert H. Zieger

Robert H. Zieger (1938-2013) was Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Florida, where he had taught since 1986. Zieger wrote or edited more than a dozen books, including The CIO, 1935-1955 and For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on November 15, 2020

(3.5 stars) (Audiobook) Decided to read another World War I book close to Veterans Day. The audiobook was a newer release, but the book itself is nearly 20 years old. Overall, it offered some good insight into the war experience from the American side. In particular, the actual conflict was only a s......more

Goodreads review by Gregory on February 25, 2017

This book was both concise and comprehensive pertaining to the subject of American history during the World War I era. Ziegler covers a variety of social, cultural, and military challenges and events that each contributed to the nature of the American experience during the war. It paints a vivid por......more