The contrast with Teddy Roosevelt is striking. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair went from university to election campaigns without much in between. These days we are used to leaders who are professional politicians. Its economy is booming, its military might is becoming evident and the American century is just beginning and in 1901, after the murder of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt becomes its youngest ever president at 42. The US is a young country, though one that is beginning to realise its strength. This is an America in which the west is still pretty wild, and there is savagery in the south: black men are burned alive by white vigilantes. Queen Victoria has just died, and the emperors of the old Europe continue to sit - however uneasily - on their thrones. But this global threat comes not from al-Qaida, but from anarchism.
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