Making Men Moral: Social Engineering During the Great War

by Nancy K. Bristow

Book Overview

On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German shot and shells we will try to live on in the hope of meeting them again in the blessed Country of happy reunions. But, Mr. President, if the hell-holes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814712207
• ISBN13: 9780814712207
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"