Shall It Be Again? by John Kenneth Turner read by Ted Lienhart Part 1/2 | Full Audio Book

Shall It Be Again? by John Kenneth Turner (1879 - 1948)
Genre(s): War & Military, Political Science, Modern (20th C)

Read by: Ted Lienhart in English

Parts:

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - I The Author Explains
00:09:01 - 02 - II Did the American People Want War?
00:24:00 - 03 - III Was America Ever in Danger?
00:38:19 - 04 - Democracy and Getting into War - IV The Responsibility of One Man
00:49:52 - 05 - V Presidential Usurpations to Achieve Belligerency
01:02:52 - 06 - VI Our Stealthy Approach to War
01:16:34 - 07 - VII The 1916 Election
01:31:54 - 08 - Democracy and the Conduct of War - VIII Executive Duplicity in Imposing the War Policies
01:46:21 - 09 - IX 'Democratic' Czarism in War-Time
02:07:17 - 10 - X The War Terror
02:41:28 - 11 - Our War 'Causes' - XI Motives Claimed for Belligerency
02:52:46 - 12 - XII Protection of American Commerce
03:14:05 - 13 - XIII Preservation of American Lives
03:28:26 - 14 - XIV War for International Law
03:35:49 - 15 - XV International Law — Our Reversals on the Law in 1915 and 1916
03:48:46 - 16 - XVI International Law — British and German Violations Compared
04:15:21 - 17 - XVII International Law — America's Offenses as Belligerent
04:37:58 - 18 - XVIII Other 'Intolerable Wrongs'
05:01:40 - 19 - Our 'Objectives' - XIX War for Democracy
05:07:59 - 20 - XX Peace Without Victory Versus Peace From Victory
05:31:00 - 21 - XXI The German World Peril Bugaboo
06:05:03 - 22 - XXII Our Myth of the War's Beginning
06:37:48 - 23 - XXIII The Noble Democracies — Scraps of Paper Atrocities

While we now view America's entry into World War I as a necessary step to save Europe from German domination, it was actually one of the most controversial decisions in U.S. history. At the time, the nation was deeply divided, with huge portions of the population bitterly opposed to joining the fight.In Shall It Be Again?, written just four years after the war ended, John Kenneth Turner contends that President Woodrow Wilson led an unwilling nation into conflict under false pretenses. Turner systematically dismantles the official justifications for the war, labeling them as either hollow or fraudulent. He exposes how Americans were herded into the conflict through government deceit and the harsh suppression of free speech.By reviewing the methods that President Wilson and his allies throughout society and the business sector used to silence dissent and coerce public cooperation in the war effort, Turner provides a striking look at the origins of modern federal power. - Summary by Ted Lienhart