This book was written right after the "Great War" it is a fantastic historical image of how contemporaries viewed the war, its causes, results, and how Woodrow Wilson managed and used it to further his ideological goal of Collective Security. It really is a great contemporary look of the situations surrounding the United States and World War I. It also has some previews of future prominent Americans such as Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, before they were Presidents. (Excerpt from Goodreads)