"1683-1920": The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany

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Frederick Franklin Schrader's 1683-1920 is a rigorous legal and historical interrogation of American policy during and after World War I. Schrader dismantles the narrative of the war as a moral crusade, instead exposing the Espionage Act as a tool of domestic repression and the Allied blockade as an illegal act that caused over one million deaths by starvation. He challenges the romanticized view of the Fourteen Points, revealing how they were distorted by propaganda and how the American public was misled by government-sanctioned propaganda in schools.\n\nThis is not a partisan polemic but a meticulous legal analysis. Schrader examines the illegality of the blockade under international law, the contradiction between American democratic ideals and the suppression of dissent at home, and the enduring impact of these decisions on American foreign policy. For readers interested in the history of law, the evolution of civil liberties, and the darker side of American interventionism, 1683-1920 is essential reading.