| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Warren Zimmermann. First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2002. Pp. xii, 562. $30.00.

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 Warren Zimmermann's fine book. He approaches it in two ways. The first half of the book, after a workmanlike 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. Far beyond potted biography, each of these chapters examines the shaping of the characters and viewpoints of its subject in penetrating and insightful ways. Roosevelt, Zimmermann theorizes, was so eager to fight in a war with almost anyone because all his life he regretted his revered father's failure to fight in the Civil War and wished to redeem the family honor. While the author believes that each of these men was remarkable in his own way, he portrays them warts and all. . . .

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