Shall It Be Again?: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Shall It Be Again?, credited to John Kenneth Turner, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Shall It Be Again? by John Kenneth Turner. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. While we now view America’s entry into World War I as a necessary step to save Europe from German domination, it was actually one of the most controversial decisions in U.S. history. At the time, the nation was deeply divided, with huge portions of the population bitterly opposed to joining the fight. In Shall It Be Again?, written just four years after the war ended, John Kenneth Turner contends that President Woodrow Wilson led an unwilling nation into conflict under false pretenses. Turner systematically dismantles the official justifications for the war, labeling them as either hollow or fraudulent. He exposes how Americans were herded into the conflict through government deceit and the harsh suppression of free speech. By reviewing the methods that President Wilson and his allies throughout society and the business sector used to silence dissent and coerce public cooperation in the war effort, Turner provides a striking look at the origins of modern federal power. - Summary by Ted Lienhart

Recording facts

• Recording title: Shall It Be Again?
• Author credits: John Kenneth Turner
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 14:06:38

Catalogue topics

• World War 1
• free speech
• WW1
• president woodrow wilson administration
• u.s. history 1910s
• civil rights violations

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 01 - I The Author Explains — 9:00
2. 02 - II Did the American People Want War? — 14:59
3. 03 - III Was America Ever in Danger? — 14:19
4. 04 - Democracy and Getting into War - IV The Responsibility of One Man — 11:32
5. 05 - V Presidential Usurpations to Achieve Belligerency — 12:58
6. 06 - VI Our Stealthy Approach to War — 13:42
7. 07 - VII The 1916 Election — 15:20
8. 08 - Democracy and the Conduct of War - VIII Executive Duplicity in Imposing the War Policies — 14:27
9. 09 - IX "Democratic" Czarism in War-Time — 20:55
10. 10 - X The War Terror — 34:11
11. 11 - Our War "Causes" - XI Motives Claimed for Belligerency — 11:18
12. 12 - XII Protection of American Commerce — 21:18
13. 13 - XIII Preservation of American Lives — 14:21
14. 14 - XIV War for International Law — 7:22
15. 15 - XV International Law — Our Reversals on the Law in 1915 and 1916 — 12:56
16. 16 - XVI International Law — British and German Violations Compared — 26:34
17. 17 - XVII International Law — America's Offenses as Belligerent — 22:36
18. 18 - XVIII Other "Intolerable Wrongs" — 23:40
19. 19 - Our "Objectives" - XIX War for Democracy — 6:19
20. 20 - XX Peace Without Victory Versus Peace From Victory — 23:01
21. 21 - XXI The German World Peril Bugaboo — 34:03
22. 22 - XXII Our Myth of the War's Beginning — 32:45
23. 23 - XXIII The Noble Democracies — Scraps of Paper Atrocities — 32:44
24. 24 - XXIV The Noble Democracies and Small Nations — 18:22

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