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Tooze (history, Yale Univ.; The Wages of Destruction) examines how the peace and international order established at the end of World War I disintegrated. While most histories of the interwar period blame the collapse on unfair demands placed upon Germany at Versailles and the chaos that accompanied the worldwide great depression, Tooze focuses on the ascendency of the United States as a global superpower. Rather than viewing Woodrow Wilson as merely a liberal internationalist, the author...Log In or Sign Up to Read More