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"We have been provincials no longer," said Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America's entry into World Warfare I, as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. Just 10 days and nights after Wilson's declaration, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne, concluding a three-centuries-long dynasty and ushering in the wrong dawn of the democratic Russia. Wilson asked Congress to declare warfare against Germany a few short weeks later, asserting the United States' new role as a global power and its commitment to dispersing American ideals overseas. Will Englund draws on an abundance of modern day diaries, memoirs, and paper accounts to provide feel and personal information to the story of that month. March 1917 celebrates the dreams of warriors, pacifists, revolutionaries, and reactionaries, even while it shows how their successes and failures constitute the foundation story of the complicated world we inhabit a hundred years later.
