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John B. Judis The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
Scribner 2004 0743261275 / 9780743261272 Hardcover Very Good
"'() The New York Times hailed John B. Judis's The Emerging Democratic Majority as ''indispensable.'' Now this brilliant political writer compares the failure of American imperialism a century ago with the potential failure of the current administration's imperialistic policies. One hundred years ago, Theodore Roosevelt believed that the only way the United States could achieve peace, prosperity, and national greatness was by joining Europe in a struggle to add colonies. But Roosevelt became disillusioned with this imperialist strategy after a long war in the Philippines. Woodrow Wilson, shocked by nationalist backlash to American intervention in Mexico and by the outbreak of World War I, began to see imperialism not as an instrument of peace and democracy, but of war and tyranny. Wilson advocated that the United States lead the nations of the world in eliminating colonialism and by creating a ''community of power'' to replace the unstable ''balance of power.'' Wilson's efforts were'''' ID: mon0000079139"
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