Anticipating the centenary of World War I, a brilliant new history of the year it began--"a year forever memorable" (Woodrow Wilson)--that examines the war and its causes through new eyes.

Illuminated and enlivened... [Beatty's] ability to hot-wire our history to the here and now is what gives Age of Betrayal its distinctive bite. Los Angeles Times Book Review on The Age of Betrayal Readers will immediately by impressed by the range of subject matter he can handle, from political, economic, and constitutional history to the history of labor, social movements and time... Absorbing in its detail and refreshingly uncompromising in its perspective. Boston Globe on The Age of Betrayal