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020			_a9781627792165
050	0	0	_aE713 _b.K56 2017
082	1		_a327.73 KIN _2
100	1		_aKinzer, Stephen
245	1	4	_aThe true flag : _bTheodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the birth of American empire _c/ Stephen Kinzer
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Henry Holt and Company _c, 2017
300			_a306 p. _b: illus. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.
505	0		_aWhite 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.
520			_aStephen Kinzer brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond. 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. Revealing a piece of forgotten history, 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. All Americans, regardless of political perspective, can take inspiration from the titans who faced off in this epic confrontation. Their words are amazingly current. Every argument over America's role in the world grows from this one. It all starts here.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aSpanish-American war _y-1898
650		4	_aImperialism _x-History _y-19th century
650		4	_a Imperialism _x-History _y-20th century
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Foreign relations _y-1897 - 1901
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Politics and government _y-1897-1901
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Politics and government _y-1901-1909
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Foreign relations _y-1901-1909
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Territorial expansion
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