| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Unlikely Allies: Britain, America, and the Victorian Origins of the Special Relationship. By Duncan Andrew Campbell. (New York: Continuum, 2007. x, 307 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-184725-191-6.)

The title of his book is "somewhat misleading," Duncan Andrew Campbell confesses, as his account extends beyond the Victorian era (p. 2). It also employs the adjective "special" and takes the popular works of Winston Churchill and the academic study Conflict and Concord (1959) by H. C. Allen as historiographical starting points. Yet the special nature of the Anglo-American relationship was called into question immediately after that starting point by the Eisenhower administration's response to the Suez crisis, and while the problems were subsequently papered over, few Britons have relished the recent image of Prime Minister Tony Blair's cockboat travelling in the wake of George W. Bush's man-of-war. At much the same time, Churchill's version of the World War II alliance was exposed as a myth.

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