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Article: Teddy Roosevelt's hidden legacy: how an "imperialist" president's record makes the case for military restraint. (Culture & Reviews).(First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power)(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2003
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power, by Warren Zimmermann, New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 576 pages, $30
IN THE EARLY years of the 20th century, American troops were in the Philippines putting down a rebellion and U.S. warships were fighting terrorists in the Middle East while the glittering market of China was luring trade and investment from all the industrialized nations of the world. An unelected president born of East Coast privilege and called a "cowboy" by his detractors was sitting in the White House. The more things change...
Theodore Roosevelt and his foreign policy are worth re-examining today for many ...