Reviews for The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson

The average rating for The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-09-21 00:00:00 Richard Hagan A basic history of the anti-imperialist movement and the development of Wilsonian foreign policy in the United States. Useful because it's a crucial debate that never seems to happen on a broad scale. Ultimately one-sided--I keep looking for the book that really sets the anti-globalization movement and the liberal Wilsonians against each other in a substantive way. But it really shows how hard it seems to be for Presidents to take any progressive foreign policy positions at all--Theodore Roosevelt came into office as an imperialist, left office having soured on imperialism, and spent the rest of his life criticizing Woodrow Wilson for not being imperialist enough. And Woodrow was pretty much just a jerk.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-06-10 00:00:00 Danny Darmono For those interested in learning how American foreign policy has gone so disastrously wrong in the 20th century, look no further than Folly of Empire. A short and readable study of two proponents of empire--Wilson and Roosevelt--who later expressed serious misgivings and regret about the legitimacy of intervention and nation-building. Too bad Bush was a C student--maybe if he'd actually studied history, he wouldn't have made their same mistakes, and the mistakes of Eisenhower, Johnson, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan too!