This fine and lucid scholarship has the additional benefit of the eye of an experienced practitioner as Zelikow addresses the question of whether U.S. President Woodrow Wilson could have mediated a peace deal in 1916 or 1917 to end World War I before the United States joined the fray. The reader is aware—although the policymakers of the time could not have been—of the difference that an early deal might have made, perhaps sparing the world the later traumas associated with the rise of Bolshevism in Russia and Nazism in Germany.

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