From August 1914 via March 1917, american citizens have been more and more horrified on the exceptional destruction of the 1st global warfare. whereas sending giant guidance to the conflict's sufferers, such a lot americans adverse direct involvement. Their kingdom used to be immersed in its personal inner struggles, together with makes an attempt to minimize the facility of industrial monopolies, reform hard work practices, safe right therapy for thousands of contemporary immigrants, and extend American democracy.

Yet from the 1st, the struggle deeply affected American feelings and the nation's advertisement, monetary, and political pursuits. The risk from German U-boats and failure of U.S. makes an attempt at mediation eventually ended in a assertion of struggle, signed by means of President Wilson on April 6, 1917.

America and the nice War commemorates the centennial of that turning aspect in American heritage. Chronicling the USA in neutrality and in clash, it offers occasions and arguments, political and armed forces battles, sour tragedies and epic achievements that marked U.S. involvement within the first glossy warfare. Drawing at the matchless assets of the Library of Congress, the booklet contains many eyewitness debts and greater than 250 colour and black-and-white photographs, many by no means earlier than released.

With an creation by way of Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Kennedy, America and the good struggle brings to existence the tempestuous period from which the us emerged as a big international power.