Description: THE INTIMATE PAPERS OF COLONEL HOUSE Vols. 1 & 2 By Charles Seymour Yale Sterling Professor of History FIRST EDITIONS 1926 Edward M. House was an American diplomat, and an adviser toPresident Woodrow Wilson. He was known as Colonel House, although his rank was honorary and he had performed no military service. He was a highly influential back-stage politician in Texas before becoming a key supporter of the presidential bid of Wilson in 1912 by managing his campaign, beginning in July 1911. Having a self-effacing manner, he did not hold office but was an "executive agent", Wilson's chief adviser on European politics and diplomacy duringWorld War I (19141918).He became a government official as one of the five American commissioners to theParis Peace Conference of 1919. In 1919. In the 1916 presidential election, House declined any public role but was Wilson's top campaign adviser: "he planned its structure; set its tone; guided its finance; chose speakers, tactics, and strategy; and, not least, handled the campaign's greatest asset and greatest potential liability: its brilliant but temperamental candidate." Signed by the author and estate item
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Author: Charles Seymour
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Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Year Printed: 1926
