Les Neiges d’Antan

Notwithstanding the current wisdom which welcomes the eclipse of American influence, and eagerly promotes a penitent foreign policy that would have us recede along a sliding scale from vacillation to retreat, there remains a vigorous advocacy to the contrary. This dissent, though currently unfashionable, recalls those salad days of the Republic when the American Eagle soared unharried by the vultures that lately have been leading us into a steady and all too swift descent.

Perhaps we may hope that the recent surge of neoconservatism will move outward from its concern for economic restoration to include in its program a revival of an international posture of which Teddy Roosevelt would be proud. Until then, we will have to be content with recalling those exciting days of yesteryear through books such as this one by TR’s grandson, who engineered the coup that prevented Iran from slipping within the Soviet orbit in the summer of 1953.

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Alan L. Miller

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Notwithstanding the current wisdom which welcomes the eclipse of American influence, and eagerly promotes a penitent foreign policy that would have us recede along a sliding scale from vacillation to retreat, there remains a vigorous advocacy to the contrary. This dissent, though currently unfashionable, recalls those salad days of the Republic when the American Eagle soared unharried by the vultures that lately have been leading us into a steady and all too swift descent.

Perhaps we may hope that the recent surge of neoconservatism will move outward from its concern for economic restoration to include in its program a revival of an international posture of which Teddy Roosevelt would be proud. Until then, we will have to be content with recalling those exciting days of yesteryear through books such as this one by TR’s grandson, who engineered the coup that prevented Iran from slipping within the Soviet orbit in the summer of 1953.