| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. By Neil Smith. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xxviii, 557 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-23027-2.)
History and geography have been inextricably linked since the time of Strabo. Frederick Jackson Turner, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and Brooks Adams deeply rooted their work in a geographic context. In recent years, however, that link has been advanced more by geographers than by historians. D. W. Meinig and Gearóid Ó Tuathail, among others, have combined historical sources with the geographer's analytical tools to provide new insights into key historical questions. With this outstanding book, Neil Smith, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York, continues that trend.	1
At the center of this study is Isaiah Bowman—geographer, university president, presidential adviser, and generally unpleasant human being. Smith's Bowman is an arrogant, deceitful, manipulative, mean-spirited, racist, homophobic McCarthyite. Smith traces Bowman's illustrious career from the exploration of Machu Picchu through his presidencies of the American Geographical Society and Johns Hopkins University to his advisory roles in Woodrow Wilson's Inquiry, Franklin D. Roosevelt's State Department, and Harry S. Truman's National Science Foundation. But this book goes far beyond the standard conventions of biography.	. . .

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