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The War Lovers - Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (Paperback)
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The War Lovers - Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (Paperback)
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List price R634
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Discovery Miles 5 660
You Save R68 (11%)
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On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor.
Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible,
newspapers such as Hearst's New York Journal whipped up a frenzy,
claiming that Spain had destroyed the ship. Soon after, the easily
influenced President McKinley declared war, sending troops to both
Cuba and the Philippines In this rip-roaring history Thomas reveals
that the hunger for war had begun years earlier. Depressed by the
'closing' of the Western frontier and embracing theories of social
Darwinism, a group of warmongers including a young Teddy Roosevelt
and Henry Cabot Lodge agitated incessantly that the US exert its
influence across the seas. US foreign policy was transformed and
when Roosevelt became president there began a war without reason,
concocted within the White House - a bloody conflict that would
come at huge cost. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched,
THE WAR LOVERS is the story of 6 men at the center of history:
Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, McKinley, William James and Thomas Reed
and confirms once more than Evan Thomas is a popular historian of
the first rank.
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