The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Kinzer, Stephen
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Kinzer, Stephen

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set...
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Kinzer, Stephen

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

$47.53
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Kinzer, Stephen

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

$47.53
Author: Stephen Kinzer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers 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 in The True Flag.



Author: Stephen Kinzer
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 01/23/2018
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781250159687

About the Author
STEPHEN KINZER is the author of The Brothers, Reset, Overthrow, All the Shah's Men, and other books. An award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe and as the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a column on world affairs for the Boston Globe. He lives in Boston.
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