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Treaty of Versailles

We re-publish an essay President Hoover wrote for American Heritage in 1958 recounting his experiences as an aide to Woodrow Wilson at the peace talks after World War I. This important first-person narrative candidly details the difficulties that Wilson faced in what Hoover called “the greatest drama of intellectual leadership in all history.”

Reprinted from the June 1958 issue of American Heritage.
Most Overrated Event in This Century:

The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first.

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