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Article: How special a relationship? Whether T.R. needed Edward VII to establish the United States as a world power.(The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners)(Book review)
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THE KING AND THE COWBOY
Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners
By David Fromkin Penguin
256pp. | $25.95
I once had a professor--a lapsed ambassador, as it happens--who described the realist theory of international relations as "the billiard ball school of thought." Realists, he said, thought of nations as billiard balls, moved about by the impact of outside forces, their behavior explainable in terms of external circumstances. In his new book, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners, the distinguished historian David Fromkin presses a dissenting view. No doubt the ...