TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kinzer,Stephen
TI  - The true flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the birth of American empire 
SN  - 9781250159687 (pbk)
AV  - 002 E 713 K56t 2018
U1  - 327.73009/034 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Griffin, 
KW  - Spanish-American War, 1898
KW  - Influence
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Guerra hispano-americana, 1898
KW  - Influencia
KW  - Imperialismo
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XIX
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1897-1901
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1901-1909
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
KW  - Política y gobierno
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index; Introduction
White and peaceful wings
There may be an explosion
The great day of my life
Islands or canned goods
If they resist, what shall we do?
Stinkpot
I turn green in bed at midnight
What a choice for a patriotic American!
The Constitution does not apply
You will get used to it
The deep hurt
N2  - How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat -- until the cycle begins again. No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted more than a century ago. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue whether to intervene in a foreign country. Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified others. Their debate gripped the nation. The country's best-known political and intellectual leaders took sides. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Hearst pushed for imperial expansion; Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, and Andrew Carnegie preached restraint. Only once before -- in the period when the United States was founded -- have so many brilliant Americans so eloquently debated a question so fraught with meaning for all humanity
ER  -