Michael S. Neiberg, “The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America” (Oxford UP, 2016)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Feb 28, 2017 · 42m

In The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2016), acclaimed historian Michael Neiberg examines the background of war fever in the United States between 1914 to 1917 to present a new interpretation on the nation’s slide to entering the First World War in April 1917. In a departure from the general outlook on the war, he presents a case where the American public was more engaged in the process than has been allowed by historians who have traditionally focused on the Wilson administration’s leadership in the varying crises in German-American…