formidable North American redoubt. And two, while that process moves forward to gradually unseat all European powers from their strategic presence in North America. And that generally worked. The French left early on. The Spanish stuck around until 1898, but then we booted them out in the Spanish-American war. And then the British left relatively early in the 20th century after Anglo-American Rup Rochement pulling out their last troops from Canada right around 1905, 1906. So what I actually, the part of the book that I found most illuminating and interesting is not the geographical or natural security conditions that would make isolationism a viable or intelligent or strategically advantageous strategy, but rather the way in which American political history and culture told stories about itself and its own relationship to the world that ultimately became self-fulfilling prophecy. First of all, do you, I mean, would you agree with that interpretation that this was the strongest source (15/33)
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