| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Somoza and Roosevelt: Good Neighbour Diplomacy in Nicaragua, 1933–1945. By Andrew Crawley. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 288 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-921265-1.)

Diplomatic history, or as some job descriptions now classify it, "the history of the United States and the world," has undergone significant changes over the last quarter century, with many historians applying the tools of social and cultural history to America's diplomatic record and others focusing on the archives of other countries to document the impact of the United States. Andrew Crawley's work is an unembarrassed throwback to an earlier era, an account of the policy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration toward Nicaragua based almost exclusively on the State Department's voluminous records. But a traditional approach still has its strengths, and Somoza and Roosevelt is surprisingly enlightening on many issues and raises important questions in trying to understand the history of U.S.–Latin American relations.

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