Part I. Peace and war -- The disciple as prophet: Thomas Woodrow Wilson -- A man of the people: David Lloyd George -- Aristocrat and soldier: Winston Spencer Churchill -- How the liberals started a world war -- Goodbye to the Garden of Eden: John Maynard Keynes -- Knight-errant of progressivism: Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- The British war effort: Churchill, Lloyd George, Keynes -- The American way in warfare: Wilson and House -- Part II. War and peace -- Agenda for the hall of mirrors: Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Wilson -- The Fourteen Points in Paris: Wilson and Lloyd George -- A Carthaginian peace? Keynes -- Reparations and guilt: Lloyd George and Wilson -- Further economic consequences: Keynes and Lloyd George -- Second chances: Churchill, Roosevelt, Keynes -- Epilogue: the legacies of war in the long run