Volume 31, Number 2 · February 16, 1984
Where Modern Politics Began
By Ronald Steel
The Warrior and the Priest
by John Milton Cooper Jr.
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 442 pp., $20.00
Although John Milton Cooper's comparative biography of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson recalls both men vividly, it is not easy today to look at them with equanimity, let alone uncritical admiration. They seem so out of proportion that they have become caricatures of themselves. Consider Theodore Roosevelt charging up a Cuban hill in pursuit of glory, or shooting some lumbering animal in the effort to prove his virility. Or Woodrow Wilson, piously asserting the virtues of being 'too proud to fight,' and then sending Americans off to die for universal democracy and the balance of power.
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