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Twisting the Lions Tail.' American Anglophobia between the World Wars. By John E. Moser. (New York: New York University Press, 1999. x, 263 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-5615-8.)
For students of interwar American foreign policy and Anglo-American relations, the topic of this monograph creates some anticipation and excitement, since a solidly researched, sophisticated, scholarly analysis of what American anglophobia was and its impact would be most beneficial. This book is not, however, able to deliver any such salvation. A collection of loosely related ethnic and geographic groups, superficially discussed watersheds, and a nonsensical methodological premise combine to produce a work that does not live up to expectations.
TO begin, John E. Moser does not have a coherent definition of anglophobia. The evidence he presents has no defining criteria, except that someone or some group displayed a negative feeling toward Great Britain or the British Empire. That is of course a system of organization that does not...