'There has been a gap in the subject [of American involvement in the founding of the League of Nations] which Lloyd E. Ambrosius has now filled with his lucid and comprehensive narrative. On the basis of quite remarkably extensive research in private papers as well as published sources, Ambrosius traces the story of the League from Wilson's adoption of the ideal while America was still neutral through the Paris peace conference and the proceedings of the Senate to the election of 1920 which, as Ambrosius convincingly shows, represented the emphatic repudiation of Wilson and his League.' John A. Thompson, The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Wilson's new world; 2. Origins of Wilson's league of nations idea; 3. Drafting of the League of Nations Covenant; 4. American criticism of Wilson's peacemaking; 5. Revision of the League of Nations Covenant; 6. The question of control at home and abroad; 7. The Versailles Treaty in the Senate; 8. American rejection of the Versailles peace; 9. The aftermath of Wilson's peacemaking; 10. Epilogue: Wilson's legacy; Bibliography; Index.