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050 00 $aE183.8.G7$bF66 2008
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100 1 $aFromkin, David.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81078684
245 14 $aThe king and the cowboy :$bTheodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh : secret partners /$cDavid Fromkin.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2008.
300 $a256 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-246) and index.
520 1 $a"In The King and the Cowboy, highly acclaimed historian David Fromkin reveals how two colorful figures - Edward the Seventh of England and Theodore Roosevelt - assumed leadership of the English-speaking world at the beginning of the twentieth century. Working together, secretly, they turned the alliance structure of the civilized world upside down." "As human beings, the two men could hardly have been more different. A lover of fine food, drink, beautiful women, and the pleasure-seeking culture of Paris and Monte Carlo, Edward had previously been regarded as nothing more than a playboy. The public - and Queen Victoria even more so - doubted Edward's ability to rule the British Empire. Yet Edward would surprise the world with his leadership, and his canny understanding of the fragility of the British Empire at the apex of its global power." "Across the Atlantic, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, the aristocrat from Manhattan, fashioned his own legend, going west to become a cowboy: A deputy sheriff in the Montana badlands who tracked down horse thieves with a rifle in his arms and a Tolstoy novel in his saddlebags, he succeeded to the presidency after President McKinley's 1901 assassination. The nation expected little from Roosevelt: Henry Adams, political gatekeeper and descendant of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, claimed that Roosevelt "acts by the instinct of a school-boy at a second-rate boarding school." Mark Twain called the president insane. Rising above criticism, Roosevelt became one of the nation's most beloved presidents." "The King and the Cowboy provides new perspective on both Edward the Seventh and Theodore Roosevelt, revealing how, at the oft-forgotten Algeciras Conference of 1906, they worked together to dispel the shadow cast over world affairs by Edward's ill-tempered, power-hungry nephew Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. At Algeciras, the United States and major European powers allied with Britain, defeating Germany's bid for European hegemony. In an unlikely turn of events, and with maneuvering behind the scenes by the Americans and the British, the conference served to isolate Germany, and set the groundwork for the forging of the Allied forces. We see the birth of the special relationship between America and England - and of the intimacy between England and France."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100124
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100252
600 10 $aRoosevelt, Theodore,$d1858-1919.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027239
600 00 $aEdward$bVII,$cKing of Great Britain,$d1841-1910.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039821
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1901-1909.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140090
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$y1901-1910.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056713
650 0 $aWorld politics$y1900-1918.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148219
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0820/2008024946.html
852 00 $bglx$hE183.8.G7$iF66 2008