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This is a very well written book which displays the author's deep knowledge and understanding of our history as well as the mindset prevalent in turn of the century America (1880 - 1915). A fascinating read that moves right along and any serious student of US history would be well advised to read it.

What a huge disappointment. the first thirty pages with its less than thinly veiled attempt to link Roosevelt with the Aryan beliefs of the Nazis is just plain ghastly. having become quite a Roosevelt fan over the past three years, I'm 75, I am appalled by the lack of scholarship and knowledge displayed in the book. Roosevelt, a man who crowded at least three lifetimes into his brief sixty years deserved much better. He to me, grandson of two Eastern Pennsylvania Coal Miners, demonstrated traits that I have both developed myself and have encouraged in my children and grandchildren. Summed up they are to get to KNOW the people, work with your hands among the people, live with the people, share the joy and heartbreak of the people. Then and only then can you speak for the people and Theodore Roosevelt did just that. he was a man, of the people, not just of his time but a man who looked to the future and what could be. Robert Kennedy once stole a line, "Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not." Perhaps it was stolen from President Roosevelt.

Its a shame when you realize 25 pages into a book how distorted and biased the author is toward his country. The quotes and sources are suspect and much just does not stand up to historical review. I suspect the rest of his books have the same mission-distortion for the left.

This book has a lot of facts in it but the anger of the author toward the United States and his guilt for being white overshadows everything else.

Your biased opinion about America and its past is obviously from a real hate of America, your way of branding us as Aryans and murders akin to the Nazi is beyond the pale. Why do you hate America so?? Your sources are vague at best and you have drawn your own conclusions based on your political bias. Don't waste good time and money on this book unless you are out of toilet paper.