| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

James G. Blaine and Latin America. By David Healy. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. x, 278 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-1374-X.)

This fine monograph is unapologetically traditional diplomatic history. David Healy insists that 'foreign policy matters,' as do 'those who make it. . . . In the end someone must act or react, and it makes a difference who that someone is.' Focusing on one leading historical actor, Healy asserts that the brilliant and ambitious James G. Blaine was 'indisputably one of the leading political figures of his time,' a man who shaped American diplomacy more than 'any individual of his generation.' Blaine believed the nation was 'destined to be a great power and wanted it to begin acting like one,' so he sought to make the United States 'the arbiter of Western Hemisphere affairs and the equal of the powers of Europe.' . . .

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