Larry Hedrick "Rogues' Gallery: America's Foes from George III to Saddam Hussein."
"Rogues' Gallery" presents the epic of America's struggles with the foreign foes who challenged it to greatness or lured it toward possible disaster. Here are finely drawn portraits of such mythic figures as:
George III, America's last king and first national enemy, an eccentric gentleman whom Tom Paine denounced as "the royal brute of Britain."
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who six years after his victory at the Alamo conducted a huge funeral in Mexico City to honor his amputated leg
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, George III's great-great-grandson, who never danced with women but would waltz at formal dinners with his officers
Hideki Tojo, a diehard militarist, who after Hiroshima urged the Japanese people to live out their lives in caves rather than capitulate to the United States
Fidel Castro, who, as a youthful guerrilla leader in the mountains of Cuba, liked to impress American visitors with his knowledge of baseball trivia
Saddam Hussein, the self-described "Knight of the Arab Nation," who once aimed to build an Islamic empire that would destroy Israel and stretch from Iraq to Morroco.
"Rogues' Gallery" sheds new light on the ambitions and events that drove these extraordinary men into conflict with the United States and illuminates their sometimes bizarre personalities. The drama captured in these pages reveals international conflict as both deeply human and uniquely monstrous. It also shows how the American character has been both formed and deformed by its confrontation with enemies abroad.
Hardcover with DJ. 1992.
New book. Very minor shelf wear from rubbing.