“Theodore Roosevelt, who was widely traveled, easily ranks as the most internationally-mindedPresident of his generation. He understood the role of the United States in the world of powerpolitics more clearly than any of his predecessors and most of his successors. . . . He is farbetter known for his efforts at peacemaking than at war-making. And, what is more, he deservedthis acclaim.”Thomas B. Bailey, A Diplomatic History of theAmerican People, 1974“[Theodore Roosevelt was] a person of his times. . . . He hailed the advance of Western andespecially Anglo-Saxon civilization as a world movement, the key to peace and progress. . . . Heviewed “barbaric” people as the major threat to civilization and had no difficulty rationalizing theuse of force to keep them in line. . . . He was less clear how to keep peace among the so-called civilized nations