The Book Prize Index

The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931

Adam Tooze

"A century after the outbreak of the First World War, a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world. The war would make a celebrity out of Woodrow Wilson and would ratify the emergence of the US as the dominant force in the world economy"--

HistoryHistory · medium confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryOpen Library: Wilson, woodrow, 1856-1924 -> BiographyOpen Library: World War, 1914-1918 -> War & MilitaryWar & Military StrategyWorld War IWorld War II

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History2014WinnerSecondary source
Kirkus Prize for NonfictionMajor2015FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Woodrow Wilson78%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    World War I’s legacy continues to shape the world by making Woodrow Wilson a celebrity and ratifying the US’s emergence as the dominant force in the world economy.

    Model confidence 74%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.