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This book is based on an erroneous premise. The story that Roosevelt's brother-in-law Robinson was member of a "syndicate" of American investors who profited from sale of the canal to the French was made up and was debunked at the time (see, e.g., New York Times Dec. 15, 1908). There were no American stockholders of the French company that received the $40 million. The Rainey hearings discussed in the book also found no evidence that Robinson was involved with the canal. Roosevelt's libel suit against the World was dismissed for procedural reasons, not because the story about Robinson was true (even the World's newspaper reporter, whose narrative is reprinted in the Rainey hearings, said there was no evidence implicating Robinson).

And yet, this fictional allegations is the central theme of this book.

There are other errors, one of the most egregious being on p. 151 where the author states that the supplemental report of the Walker Commission agreed that Nicaragua was the superior route but that because Panama was $5 million cheaper they were switching their recommendation. In fact, what the author quotes from is not the supplemental report but Senator Mitchell's speech wherein he caricatures the Walker Commission's change of position. The Walker Commission in its supplemental report said Panama was the superior route.The quotation at p. 151 is intended to convey the impression that because the switch was made over $5 million from a superior (Nicaragua) to inferior (Panama) route, there had to be some funny business behind it (i.e., Robinson's involvement in the "syndicate.").

The "syndicate" the author refers to was the plan to Americanize the canal in 1899-1900 by attracting American investors. It never got off the ground and the idea was abandoned, before Roosevelt even took office.

I gave two stars because it's engagingly written and has some useful information, but the entire thesis of the book is based on a lie.


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The Cowboy and the Canal J M Carlisle 9780990441915 Books Reviews

The teaser about this book contains the mispelled, gringo version "COLUMBIA" and should be corrected. I haven't read the book yet, but am purchasing the version. My one star rating is NOT about the book. It's about the review's mispelling the country where I was born.
This book should be a movie! There are two masterful strokes at work here, one is a remarkable, and commanding narrative; The Cowboy And The Canal offers an amazing story. The second is that the story is supported with powerful research. Jeannie Carlisle doesn’t pull any punches, and courageously challenges existing stereotypes and misconceptions about the Panama Canal, and Theodore Roosevelt. Buckle up boys and girls, this book isn’t for the fainthearted. And through out, I couldn’t help but see the scenes as they unfolded. Highly recommended.
Gives negative side of TR's escapades in establishing Panama Canal, but is one sided, and lacks scholarly bones.
This book is woven from the delicate silken threads of fact into a powerful tapestry of truth. Makes me want to re-arrange Mt. Rushmore.
Jeannie Carlisle announces her thesis right up front, in the subtitle of this book and in the opening sections, and her intent is very clear to demonstrate that Theodore Roosevelt was a self-interested—and more than a little mad—adventurer whose chief interests as President did not lie in the will of the people of the United States. She then goes on to prove her case with regard to the amazing chain of events leading up to the American-controlled interoceanic canal being built in Panama rather than Nicaragua, a route that had been shown to be superior in every way for decades previous. This is a tale of obsession, ego, political chicanery and fraud involving several characters whose motives and actions could be said to be stranger than fiction, if it were not for the fact that, as Carlisle reminds us, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose—we have seen these patterns repeat time after time in scandalous adventures in fraud and warmongering that leads to the financial enrichment and ideological aggrandizement of those in power. Carlisle tells an amazing tale, with characters who are compelling in their sheer audacity, notably William Nelson Cromwell, a lawyer diminutive in stature and Halliburton-sized in manipulation, mendacity and profit-seeking, who almost single-handedly turned the tide, bringing the ill-conceived, mismanaged, predatory and bankrupt French Panama canal company into the unlikely position of being purchased by the U.S., relieving its dishonest owners of their burden and enriching its American receivers, notably Cromwell himself and Roosevelt’s brother in law and family financial controller, Douglas Robinson. Roosevelt’s gunboat diplomacy in fomenting and then supporting a Panamanian ‘revolution’ against Colombia sealed the deal in reckless haste. Carlisle delves deeply into historical sources including reams of newspaper accounts of contemporary events and opinions, to show clearly and repeatedly how unthinkable a canal through Panama rather than Nicaragua was to Americans at the time, and that Roosevelt’s hero status was not a view universally held. All this and far more make The Cowboy and the Canal a whopping, eye-opening read, definitely worth the price of admission.
This book has opened my eyes to the greed and lust for power that presidents have. I love the Panama Canal and Panama and have lost all respect for Theodore Rossevelt. He was just another self centered ego maniac who cared not who he hurt or destroyed as long as he got what he wanted. That is sad and worse is this pertains to all who have been and are president in some way. They lie, cheat, steal and create subterfug so they can live large and puff themselves up. It is a shame that so much of our great accomplishments could have been greater except for greed and lust for power.
This book is based on an erroneous premise. The story that Roosevelt's brother-in-law Robinson was member of a "syndicate" of American investors who profited from sale of the canal to the French was made up and was debunked at the time (see, e.g., New York Times Dec. 15, 1908). There were no American stockholders of the French company that received the $40 million. The Rainey hearings discussed in the book also found no evidence that Robinson was involved with the canal. Roosevelt's libel suit against the World was dismissed for procedural reasons, not because the story about Robinson was true (even the World's newspaper reporter, whose narrative is reprinted in the Rainey hearings, said there was no evidence implicating Robinson).

And yet, this fictional allegations is the central theme of this book.

There are other errors, one of the most egregious being on p. 151 where the author states that the supplemental report of the Walker Commission agreed that Nicaragua was the superior route but that because Panama was $5 million cheaper they were switching their recommendation. In fact, what the author quotes from is not the supplemental report but Senator Mitchell's speech wherein he caricatures the Walker Commission's change of position. The Walker Commission in its supplemental report said Panama was the superior route.The quotation at p. 151 is intended to convey the impression that because the switch was made over $5 million from a superior (Nicaragua) to inferior (Panama) route, there had to be some funny business behind it (i.e., Robinson's involvement in the "syndicate.").

The "syndicate" the author refers to was the plan to Americanize the canal in 1899-1900 by attracting American investors. It never got off the ground and the idea was abandoned, before Roosevelt even took office.

I gave two stars because it's engagingly written and has some useful information, but the entire thesis of the book is based on a lie.