An examination of the causes, prosecution and legacy of the Great War, World War I, from the perspective of American involvement. Robert H. Zieger seeks to illuminate both America's dramatic influence on the war and the war's considerable impact upon America.

Much has been written on World War I, but few books focus solely on America's involvement in the war as successfully as Robert H. Zieger. In America's Great War, Zieger concentrates his attention on five broad themes that affected Americans: Woodrow Wilson's role in shaping world order; America's familial connection to Europe; the complicated relationship between the wartime experience and the Progressive Era; race; and the emergence of the National Security State.