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“Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground” reads a plaque near the gravesite of Theodore Roosevelt, America’s 26th president. During his tumultuous seven and a half years in the White House, Roosevelt boasted that his administration had combined ideals and reality to take a leading role in maintaining global peace. In this book, the late Howard Jones, one of the most distinguished historians of American foreign relations of his generation, highlights the path to peace that Roosevelt had begun to develop shortly before becoming president and tried to implement throughout his White House tenure. For his efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War, he was the first American, and one of only two twentieth century presidents, to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. By exploring the influence of Roosevelt’s private life on his public service, Jones presents a broader understanding that will appeal to readers beyond specialists in US foreign relations.

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Howard Jones, one of America's most eminent historians, has left us with a deeply researched and beautifully written analysis of President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy, which set the course for America's role in the modern world. This is a magnificent book that will find a large audience. --Don H. Doyle, author of The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War While crafting this accessible, engaging, and provocative analysis of Theodore Roosevelt's presidential foreign policies, Howard Jones sought to allow TR to speak for himself. While completing and editing the manuscript, Donald Rakestraw endeavored to preserve Jones's voice and principal themes. Both have succeeded admirably, and together, they have conveyed Roosevelt's complex and evolving perspectives, his combination of idealism and practicality, his role as more peacemaker than disciple of war, and his elevation of the United States to major player on the international scene. --Joseph Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas It's been nearly a half century that TR, a lion of American foreign policy, has gotten serious scholarly attention. Wielding deep research and measured prose, and without resort to hagiography, Jones and Rakestraw have balanced Roosevelt as a muscular unilateralist and internationalist peacemaker. This tour de force is accessible to all. --Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado Boulder The American Century owes its existence to Theodore Roosevelt, and Howard Jones reminds us that the long period of relative peace and prosperity came by way of Roosevelt's statecraft. In the first comprehensive book about Roosevelt's foreign policy since Howard Beale's 1956 masterpiece, Jones tells how Big Stick diplomacy secured American interests and global order. And, just like Roosevelt, Jones has left us with a history that will live on for generations. --Michael Cullinane, Dickinson State University

Howard Jones, one of America's most eminent historians, has left us with a deeply researched and beautifully written analysis of President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy, which set the course for America's role in the modern world. This is a magnificent book that will find a large audience. --Don H. Doyle, author of The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War It's been nearly a half century that TR, a lion of American foreign policy, has gotten serious scholarly attention. Wielding deep research and measured prose, and without resort to hagiography, Jones and Rakestraw have balanced Roosevelt as a muscular unilateralist and internationalist peacemaker. This tour de force is accessible to all. --Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado Boulder The American Century owes its existence to Theodore Roosevelt, and Howard Jones reminds us that the long period of relative peace and prosperity came by way of Roosevelt's statecraft. In the first comprehensive book about Roosevelt's foreign policy since Howard Beale's 1956 masterpiece, Jones tells how Big Stick diplomacy secured American interests and global order. And, just like Roosevelt, Jones has left us with a history that will live on for generations. --Michael Cullinane, Dickinson State University While crafting this accessible, engaging, and provocative analysis of Theodore Roosevelt's presidential foreign policies, Howard Jones sought to allow TR to speak for himself. While completing and editing the manuscript, Donald Rakestraw endeavored to preserve Jones's voice and principal themes. Both have succeeded admirably, and together, they have conveyed Roosevelt's complex and evolving perspectives, his combination of idealism and practicality, his role as more peacemaker than disciple of war, and his elevation of the United States to major player on the international scene. --Joseph Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Author: The late Howard Jones, University of Alabama Research Professor of History Emeritus, was the author of numerous books and articles on the history of U.S. foreign relations. Among his works are the award winning To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty; Mutiny on the Amistad that contributed to Stephen Spielberg’s major motion picture Amistad; Union in Peril and Blue and Gray Diplomacy, both essential reading on the international dimensions of the Civil War; The Bay of Pigs; Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War; and, most recently, New York Times “Editors’ Choice” My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness. Editor: Donald A. Rakestraw is Georgia Southern University and Winthrop University Professor of History Emeritus. Among his publications are For Honor or Destiny: The Anglo-American Crisis over the Oregon Territory; a Choice Academic Book of the Year for 1997, Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo-American Relations in the 1840s (with Howard Jones); and, most recently, Daniel Webster: Defender of Peace.

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