tailieunhanh - Philip Dru: Administrator

Tham khảo sách 'philip dru: administrator', giải trí - thư giãn, truyện ngắn phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | feedboo is Philip Dru Administrator House Edward Mandell Published 1912 Categorie s Fiction Science Fiction Source http 1 About House Edward Mandell House July 26 1858 - March 28 1938 was an American diplomat politician and presidential advisor. Commonly known by the purely honorific title of Colonel House although he had no military experience he had enormous personal influence with President Woodrow Wilson as his foreign policy advisor until Wilson removed him in 1919. Colonel Edward Mandell House originally Huis which became House was born July 26 1858 in Houston Texas. House was educated in New England prep schools and went on to study at Cornell University in 1877 but was forced to drop out when his father died. Returning to Texas House ran his family s business. He eventually sold the cotton plantations and invested in banking. House moved to New York City about 1902. In 1912 House published anonymously a novel called Philip Dru Administrator in which the title character Dru leads the democratic western . in a civil war against the plutocratic East becoming the dictator of America. Dru as dictator imposes a series of reforms which resemble the Bull Moose platform of 1912 and then vanishes. Lash pp 230-35 He became active in Texas politics and served as an advisor to President Woodrow Wilson particularly in the area of foreign affairs. House functioned as Wilson s chief negotiator in Europe during the negotiations for peace 1917-1919 and as chief deputy for Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference. House helped to make four men governor of Texas James S. Hogg 1892 Charles A. Culberson 1894 Joseph D. Sayers 1898 and S. W. T. Lanham 1902 . After the election House acted as unofficial advisor to each governor. Hogg gave House the title Colonel by promoting House to his staff. House became a close friend and supporter of New Jersey governor Woodrow Wilson in 1911 and helped him win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912. He became an intimate