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The True Flag : Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

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

Author

Stephen Kinzer

Publisher

Henry Holt and Co.; Henry Holt and Co; Henry Holt and Company

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781627792165

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.93 / 5 (311 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14