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Warren Zimmermann spent thirty-three years as an officer in the U.S. Foreign Service and was our last ambassador to Yugoslavia. He has taught at Columbia and Johns Hopkins universities

Comprend les noms: Voren Zimerman, Warren Zimmerman

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Date de naissance
1934-11-16
Date de décès
2004-02-03
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieu du décès
Great Falls, Virginia, USA
Études
Yale University
Professions
diplomat

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Excellent book! For anyone that studies Roosevelt. Brought him into a whole new light for me.
 
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caleath | 1 autre critique | Dec 21, 2012 |
Writing en route to Cuba during the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt envisioned the coming campaign as "the first great triumph in what will be a world movement." That movement—the emergence of the United States as a world power—is the subject of this thoughtful approach to the history and diplomacy of the era of the Spanish American War. The first half of the book, after an overview of the United States in 1898, consist of essays on five men who exemplified the expansionist movement and played a part in its development. They include the poet, journalist, and diplomat John Hay; Alfred T. Mahan, theorist of sea power; Elihu Root, corporation lawyer, government administrator, and presidential adviser; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, expansionist spokesman and mentor of Theodore Roosevelt, and finally, TR himself. Mahan narrates the stories of these lives of the leaders of this era with attention to their accomplishments and, in the cases of Alfred T. Mahan and Elihu Root, these were a revelation to me.

The second half of the book was a more traditional history of the era and in it the author, while decrying the advent of American imperialism, betrayed his own preference for big government. He concludes with an analysis of the legacy on the twentieth century of the expansion led by these five men: the creation of an authentic American Imperialism (for better or worse), the preparation of the United States to be a great power, the first comprehensive assertion of of U. S. security interests abroad, the creation of foreign policy priorities in human rights and stability, and finally strengthening the American presidency. This final legacy has grown unwieldy at the beginning of our new century. Overall Zimmermann's book was an excellent historical overview of a formative period for American foreign relations.
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3
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286
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Évaluation
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ISBN
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