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Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt

Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt

Marks, Frederick W., III

Paperback

Presidents & Heads of State20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0803281153
ISBN13: 9780803281158
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Mar 1 1982
Pages: 247
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
No president in American history has suffered a stranger fate at the hands of posterity than Theodore Roosevelt. The world leader who achieved international recognition and popularity in his own time as a man of peace (he was one of only two presidents awarded the Nobel Peace Prize) is submerged in the image of the Rough Rider, the Bully fighter, whose enthusiasm for a fight or a hunt was unrestrained by humanitarian or other concerns. The kindest criticism of Roosevelt holds that by good luck and good advice he was able to avoid disaster; the unkindest that he was an international adventurer who posturing misled may an admirer. Moreover, the apparent paradox implicit in his famous slogan, Speak softly and carry a big stick, has confused scholar and layman alike, and that confusion has been abetted by the seemingly contradictory impulses of his personality.

Frederick W. Marks III, drawing upon archival and manuscript materials in five countries, as well as numerous primary and secondary sources, rebuts, point by pint, the myths and misconceptions that have given rise to this distorted and confused image. Arguing that Roosevelt can be understood only in the context of his time and that the whole of his diplomatic record provides the key to understanding its individual parts, he reconstructs in careful detail the man, his time, and his record, and, in so doing, allows us to see Theodore Roosevelt whole.

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