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The Last Days of Innocence: America at War, 1917-1918
274 The Journal of American History The Last Days of Innocence: America at war, 1917-1918.
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By Meirion Harries and Susie Har- ries. (New York: Random House, 1997. xvi, 573 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-679-41863-6.) as one might hope. The Harrieses, who have written two previous books on the effects of total war in this century, are clearly more comfortable describing military tactics and battlefield heroics than in analyzing war-induced social changes and politics in the United States.
Meirion harries biography of george washington
They devote as much space to one heroic but minor battle-involving Maj. Charles Whittlesey's famous "lost battalion" - as they do to the tumultuous wartime labor conflicts in the United States. And one learns a good deal about the famous doughboy Alvin C.
York, without finding mention of the union leader William Z. Foster or the massive wartime steelworkers' organizing drive. Indeed, the Harrieses refer to the great steel strike of 1919, wh