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    The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh: The Secret Partners
    The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh: The Secret Partners
    The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh: The Secret Partners
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    The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh: The Secret Partners

    Written by David Fromkin

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    In The King and the Cowboy, renowned historian David Fromkin reveals how two unlikely world leaders-Edward the Seventh of England and Theodore Roosevelt-recast themselves as respected political players and established a friendship that would shape the course of the twentieth century in ways never anticipated.

    In 1901, these two colorful public figures inherited the leadership of the English-speaking countries. Following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward ascended the throne. A lover of fine food, drink, beautiful women, and the pleasure-seeking culture of Paris, Edward had previously been regarded as a bon vivant. The public-even Queen Victoria herself-doubted Edward's ability to rule the British Empire. Yet Edward would surprise the world with his leadership and his canny understanding of the fragility of the British Empire at the apex of its global power.

    Across the Atlantic, Vice President Roosevelt-the aristocrat from Manhattan who fashioned his own legend by going west to become a cowboy-succeeded to the presidency after President McKinley's assassination in 1901. Rising above criticism, Roosevelt became one of the nation's most beloved presidents.

    The King and the Cowboy provides new perspective on both Edward and Roosevelt, revealing how, at the oft-forgotten Algeciras conference of 1906, they worked together to dispel the shadow cast over world affairs by Edward's ill-tempered, power-hungry nephew, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. At Algeciras, the United States and major European powers allied with Britain in protest of Germany's bid for Moroccan independence. In an unlikely turn of events, the conference served to isolate Germany and set the groundwork for the forging of the Allied forces.

    The King and the Cowboy is an intimate study of two extraordinary statesmen who-in part because of their alliance at Algeciras-would become lauded international figures. Focusing in particular on Edward the Seventh's and Theodore Roosevelt's influence on twentieth-century foreign affairs, Fromkin's character-driven history sheds new light on the early events that determined the course of the century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 27, 2008
    ISBN9781400179664
    The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh: The Secret Partners
    Author

    David Fromkin

    David Fromkin (1932-2017) was a professor at Boston University and the author of several acclaimed books of nonfiction, including A Peace to End All Peace, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. He lived in New York City.

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      International Relations expert and Historian David Fromkin delivers a slim, elegant little book which puts forward the claim that there was a special relationship between Theodore Roosevelt (the Cowboy) and Edward VII (the King) of England which changed the course of history by creating a special relationship between Britain and the USA which still stands today and which drew the battle lines in World War One by blocking the ambitions of Kaiser Wilhelm II at the Algeciras during the First Moroccan Crisis in 1906. Furthermore he uses this claim to put forward the idea that individual personalities are often just as if not more important than impersonal forces (industrialisation, nationalism, economic structures etc.) in determining the course of history.Alas in singularly failing to prove the first claim, Fromkin undermines the second as well. The first 4/5s of the book provide us with short biographies of Edward, Theodore and Wilhelm, which are interesting to read (given that they are sprinkled with scandalous tidbits about the peccadillos of the European monarchs in particular) but don't seem to really fully support the thesis. We are told Edward (who had nothing to do with foreign policy directly) exerted an indirect influence through his patronage of pro-French friends in the foreign office. The evidence for this, and its impact is never provided. The special relationship between Roosevelt and Edward amounts to one telegram of congratulations after the conference is over. The conference, which one would expect to be described in depth is passed over in only a couple of pages. In short, Fromkin's thesis does not hold up. At best he shows how Edward VI preferred an Anglo-French alliance rather than the Anglo-German one his parents had wanted and that this preference may have filtered into official British thinking.A final note concerns odd little irregularities with facts and some (at least to me) debatable interpretations of historical records. Charles I of England was not a Catholic. The Hanoverian dynasty came after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, not the execution of Charles, etc.