Read the paragraph from "How We Entered World War I." As ships piled up in home ports, American commerce threatened to come to a
standstill affecting the entire national economy. The Cabinet grew seriously alarmed. Although Wilson possessed the executive authority to arm ships, he was reluctant to take the step that would inevitably start the shooting. He preferred to ask Congress for authorization, thus touching off the great debate and filibuster on the Armed Ship Bill. How does the author organize the text to support her viewpoint in the paragraph?
This is an essay by Essay by Barbara W. Tuchman. In 1960 her book The Guns of August, a narrative history of the outbreak of World War I, won the Pulitzer Prize. Another book she wrote on the Great War was The Zimmermann Telegram. She also wrote some essays on the subject of the First Worldwar, such as the one above and Woodrow Wilson on Freud's Couch, which appeared in 1967 in The Atlantic. She won the Pulitzer Prize again in 1971 for her book Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-45.
Each of the events in his paragraph is detailed and they are put in chronological order.
