The book starts off in May 1919; Woodrow Wilson is president and the Armistice was just signed. The people were so happy that peace was finally here. The 18th Amendment was also passed which prohibited alcohol. Woodrow Wilson wanted to bring the country back to normalcy. The people looked at Wilson as a messiah. Wilson’s plan was to make peace with Germany and then start a League of Nations. Wilson traveled through France, England, and Italy gaining much support. Wilson’s main goal was to organize the Treaty of Versailles, but it didn’t turn out as well as he expected. The *American people didn’t agree with him signing this treaty and this is when Wilson lost all his support. The people felt that the Treaty was not adequate for what needed to be done. But Woodrow Wilson was working very hard and under a lot of stress. On September 25th, after a long speech at Pueblo, Wilson had a stroke. He was partly paralyzed on his left side. After the stroke Wilson was not able to do much on his own, sometimes he couldn’t even

In writing this book Allen used his own personal experiences but he also had help from other books giving him the information he did not know. One source he did use was Masks in a Pageant. It was very helpful with the specific information and also its suggestive interpretations. He also uses news papers as a resource to help him write this book. Allen uses many great pieces of work to help him make his master piece.

One opinion Allen has in the book that history shouldn’t repeat itself. He wrote this book in 1931 not knowing what was going to happen in the 1930’s hoping it will only be for the better. He also felt the stock market got too big for its own good. I agree with everything Allen had to say. I enjoyed reading this piece of work. It’s great reading a book by an author who actually experiences the problem first hand. You get to see it through there eyes and try to see if you agree or disagree. In this case I agree with Allen.

The Red Scare was a time where production was hard to keep up with, prices were rising and the workers were going on strike because they were unhappy with their jobs. In November of 1919 there were at least one million men and women on strike. It wasn’t clear why these men and women were striking. Also, during this time there were alien radicals sending out bombs through the mail. The government wanted to find these radicals and make them pay for what they did. They succeeded in this and they received the death penalty.

sign his signature. Wilson worked hard in his presidency, but to some people it wasn’t good enough.

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