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Paris 1919 - by Margaret MacMillan (Paperback)

Paris 1919 - by  Margaret MacMillan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This prize-winning national bestseller is the landmark, personality-filled history of the Paris peace conference of 1919, now in paperback.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>National Bestseller <p/><i>New York Times</i> Editors' Choice <p/>Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize <p/>Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize <p/>Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award <br>of the Council on Foreign Relations <p/>Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award</b> <p/>For six months in 1919, after the end of "the war to end all wars," the Big Three--President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau--met in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmark work of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic and intimate view of those fateful days, which saw new political entities--Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them--born out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The history of the 1919 Paris peace talks following World War I is a blueprint of the political and social upheavals bedeviling the planet now. . . . A wealth of colorful detail and a concentration on the strange characters many of these statesmen were keep [MacMillan's] narrative lively."<br><i>--The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"MacMillan's book reminds us of the main lesson learned at such a high cost in Paris in 1919: Peace is not something that can be imposed at the conference table. It can grow only from the hearts of people."<br><i>--Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Beautifully written, full of judgment and wisdom, <i>Paris 1919</i> is a pleasure to read and vibrates with the passions of the early twentieth century and of ours."<br><i>--San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"MacMillan is a superb writer who can bring history to life."<br><i>--The Philadelphia Inquirer</i> <p/>"For anyone interested in knowing how historic mistakes can morph into later historic problems, this brilliant book is a must-read."<br><i>--Chicago Tribune</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Margaret MacMillan</b> received her Ph.D. from Oxford University and is provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto. Her previous books include <i>Women of the Raj</i> and <i>Canada and NATO</i>. Published as <i>Peacemakers</i> in England, <i>Paris 1919</i> was a bestseller chosen by Roy Jenkins as his favorite book of the year. It won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize and was a finalist for the Westminster Medal in Military Literature. MacMillan, the great-granddaughter of David Lloyd George, lives in Toronto.

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