Dan Pearson Pearson থেকে 19020 Castello SP, Italy থেকে 19020 Castello SP, Italy

In this authors mind Teddy Roosevelt was a elitist, racist, serial lying, possibly homosexual, politician. American ideals from the beginning were driven by Aryan supremacy thought. Much time will be spent discussing the Aryan ideal early in the book. In this vein of thought the author reveals little understanding of either the American colonial or Victorian mindset. As a result he does not understand his main character, Teddy Roosevelt. Throughout the book the author refers to Americans as "Aryan Americans" and the diplomatic and military efforts by European nations as the "white Christians" as if all of their economic, political, and military actions could somehow be properly termed "christian" and typical historically as only the type of actions taken by white people. The goal of the author in this book is to demonstrate that Teddy Roosevelt's imperialism was a cause of WWII in the Pacific and is therefore directly responsible for the deaths of 100,000 plus American soldiers in the Pacific during WWII. He does not succeed in my opinion of coming any where near proving that is the case and cannot even build a strong case for that theory. There are to many variables in the intervening decades. Unfortunately for the author he has many of his facts mixed up as some other reviewers have noted. His editor did him a grave disservice in failing to assist in catching some of his factual errors.