AMERICA TURNING OUTWARD

 
 
 
 
The Foreign Policies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson

Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson can readily be seen as contrasting figures in American history, the outdoorsman and the university president, the imperialist and the internationalist. The contrast between them is sufficient that author John Milton Cooper paired them as "the warrior and the priest," in his book of that title. Indeed, Cooper indicates that the use of those architypal terms did not originate with him (Cooper xiii).

However, the very fact that we readily pair these two men, in spite of their striking differences in personality and policies, is indicative of an important underlying similari


     
 
 
 
    

 

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