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THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE GREAT WHITE FLEET: American Sea Power Comes of Age, by Kenneth Wimmel. Dulles, Va.: Brassey's Inc., April 1998. 304 pp., $25.95. Teddy Roosevelt's vision in building and then deploying a Great White Fleet marked a monumental change for the U.S. Navy, making it a decisive power instrument in world politics-much unlike what it had been only two decades before. Wimmel's work covers Roosevelt's career from his last year at Harvard (where he wrote the first two chapters of...