The Will to Believe (Electronic book text)

The Will to Believe is the first study of America's approach to the war that examines all major U.S. perspectives across the political spectrum and analyzes Wilson's security strategy from the beginning of U.S. neutrality through the end of his presidency. Historian Ross A. Kennedy focuses on how three competing groups--pacifists, liberal internationalists, and Atlanticists--addressed such issues as the nature of the international system, the impact of security policies on domestic freedom, the value of alliances and multinational organizations, and the relationship between democracy and peace.