![]() ![]() ![]() Here are some of the programs in his new vision for the U.S. ![]() Who, but our hero Philip Dru, with his West Point military training and genius mind, becomes the one to lead the “West” in a “Civil War” against the “East!” In one great battle, Philip’s troops are victorious and he becomes dictator (or “Administrator”) of the United States. One unlikely thing leads to another when, at last, the working classes of the western parts of the country rise up against the “Fat Cat Establishment” of the east. He and his beloved Gloria then launch a campaign to involve the wealthy in bringing to light the situation of these hopeless poor, while at the same time actually getting into the ghettos and offering assistance to those in need. During his recuperation, he begins to take serious notice of the terrible plight of the destitute in his country. In this short novel - 275 pages - Philip Dru, a West Point graduate of the highest rank, is seriously injured on duty in the Southwest United States, thereby ending his military career. It is the Diaries of Edward Mandell House, collected in the Yale University Library, that divulge most of the information known of the history of Wilson’s presidency. It is also interesting (and disturbing) to note that President Wilson was not in the habit of keeping copies of important correspondence, nor did he keep records of meetings with his cabinet members. (We know that that body failed to see the light of day, but the idea saw successful fruition in the formation of the United Nations after World War II.) When war was not averted, he helped Wilson outline the plan for the League of Nations, supposedly the body that would be instrumental in peacekeeping in the future. House served Wilson as a kind of roving peace ambassador, trying to negotiate peace between the antagonists in Europe. By that time, he had recovered from his illness and had taken up the business of assisting in getting the Princeton Professor Wilson elected president. It is interesting to note that the work was published anonymously and with very little correction to the first draft. In Wilson’s own words, he was his alter ego.īorn in Texas to a wealthy planter, House (originally “Huis”) became advisor to four Texas governors, thereby earning his honorary title of “Colonel.” During an illness in 1912, he set down his political and social ideas in novel form because he knew that they would receive wider readership in that format than if he had written a dry political treatise. He was Wilson’s friend and shadow at this crucial time in the history of the world and of America. Edward Mandell House was the unofficial chief advisor to President Woodrow Wilson in the second decade of the twentieth century, just when this country was making its first appearance as equal partner to the European countries on the world stage. It is not a horror story yet it is scary.īefore one can understand what this book really is, he must have some knowledge of its author. It is a love story yet that is the least aspect of it. A strange book indeed! It is a novel yet the author is not a novelist.
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