Within a richly layered context, The Cowboy and the Canal probes the intrigue behind Roosevelts decision to purchase the expiring concession, rotting machinery, and dilapidated buildings from the bankrupt French Panama Canal Company and dig the interoceanic canal in Panama instead of the favored site, Nicaragua. Drawing from primary sourcesnewspaper stories, editorials, political cartoons, the Congressional record, books, magazines, journals, and lettersThe Cowboy and the Canal reintroduces the voices who criticized Roosevelts actions and questioned his motives, that through time and historical homogenization, have removed from what was at the time, a heated national conversation. These voices add a balance to what has been a onesided conversation that lauds Roosevelt for "taking Panama" and ignores his indispensible role in manufacturing a rebellion within the country of an ally, Columbia, and in creating one of the biggest frauds of its kind ever perpetrated upon the American public. The villains who abetted, encouraged and facilitated Roosevelts behindthescenes American takeover of the Columbian province of Panama and the subsequent diversion of millions of American taxpayer dollars into the hands of a few capitalists and financiers are varied. They range all the way from Roosevelts youngest sister Corrine and her husband Douglas Robinson, to the scheming wouldbe French aristocrat, Philippe BunauVarilla, a slick New York corporate lawyer, William Nelson Cromwell, and...

Binding: Paperback;338 pages; Publisher: Integral Publishers; Classification: HBJK; Weight: 614 g; Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19

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