World War One: 100 Years Later

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 30, 2017

On the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry in World War One, Margaret Wagner, Senior Writer in the Library of Congress Publishing Office and author of  America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History, chronicles the events that brought the US reluctantly into the first modern war.

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