| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power. By Warren Zimmermann. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002. xii, 562 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-374-17939-5.)

With this graceful, entertaining, and thoughtful book, Ambassador Warren Zimmermann joins a distinguished short list of diplomats who have made important contributions to the writing of history. The foreign policy influentials on whom this study focuses—Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Alfred Thayer Mahan, John Hay, and Elihu Root—were, in Zimmermann's view, largely responsible for the creation of an American empire in 1898, and, more important, they "set the course of American foreign policy for the century to come" (p. 11).

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