Meirion harries biography

Fascinating but perhaps a little suspect. Authors Mehrion and Susie Harries are interesting choices for a book about U.S.

involvement in World War One; neither is a historian (Mehrion is a lawyer and Susie studied classical literature), they’re British, and they seem to have spent a lot of their working life in Hong Kong. However, this is a quite readable history of US politics, military, and economics for the period.

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The Harries make Woodrow Wilson their protagonist – in the classical Greek sense, since Wilson’s claimed hubris is the focus of their analysis.


The Harries see Wilson as wanting to bring the United States – and therefore, himself – into a central role in world affairs; sort of a “New World Order”, if you will.

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