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Trygve Throntveit

History as Democratic Intervention: Author’s Response to Roundtable Essays on Power Without Victory

Before responding to Robert Adcock, Cara Lea Burnidge, and Amy Kittelstrom, I want to thank them for the time and attention they devoted to my book. I also want to thank them—along with Gene Zubovich, Robert Greene, and Richard Cándida Smith—for their patience as I crafted this long-delayed response. There is no very interesting excuse for my delay. I can only hope that such extended marination has added nuance to my responses rather than merely softened my brain. Power without Victory was conceived as an intervention. Not just in the literature on Wilson, the League of Nations, and the Progressive Read more