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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
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Author
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Evan Thomas.
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Publisher
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Little, Brown
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.5
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6.4
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1.5
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ISBN
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9780316004091
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Pages/Publication Date
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471/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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23354
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Description
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On February 15th, 1898, the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm. Historian Evan Thomas takes us from Boston mansions to the beaches of Cuba and the jungles of the Philippines as a powerful group of war lovers, including Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and newspaperman William Randolph Hearst, agitated for the United States to exert its muscle across the seas. "In his absorbing narrative of men who found duty or fulfillment or personal meaning in a war for empire—and of other men, like William James, who feared that such a quest would rot the nation's soul—Thomas has illuminated, in a compulsively readable style, a critical moment in American history. This is a book that, with its style and panache, is hard to forget and hard to put down."—NYTBR "Thomas has delivered an innovative, frequently entertaining and valuable retelling of an episode that set the pattern for more than a century of foreign military adventurism. This timely book is a cautionary tale about how the psyche of powerful and ambitious leaders may matter more than fact—or even truth—when the question of war arises."—Washington Post
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