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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 de Evan Thomas

The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

Autor Evan Thomas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2011
On February 15, 1898, the USSMaineexploded in Havana Harbor. The sinking of theMainewas just the provocation Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt was looking for. Along with his friend Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and his rival, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, Roosevelt began stirring the public's desire for war against Spain. Roosevelt was soon charging up San Juan Hill in Cuba with his Rough Riders in a tragi-comic campaign that marked America's emergence as an empire abroad. Through the perspective of five larger-than-life characters--war lovers Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and two prominent doves, House Speaker Thomas Reed and philosopher William James--Evan Thomas portrays a pivotal chapter in American history.
An intriguing examination of the pull that war has on men, THE WAR LOVERS is moving saga of courage, ambition, and broken friendships with a provocative relevance to today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316004121
ISBN-10: 031600412X
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 16pp of b&w illus
Dimensiuni: 143 x 210 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books

Notă biografică

Evan Thomas was a writer and editor atTimeandNewsweekfor more than 30 years. He has frequently appeared as a commentator on TV and radio and teaches writing at Princeton. He is the bestselling author of six works of nonfiction:Sea of Thunder,John Paul Jones,Robert Kennedy,The Very Best Men,The Man to See, andThe Wise Men. He lives in Washington D.C.

Recenzii

PRAISE FORTHE WAR LOVERS:

"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."—Ronald Steel,New York Times Book Review
"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."—James McGrath Morris,The Washington Post
"Thomas takes some risks in his biography of Theodore Roosevelt and his cohorts, trying to get not just inside their actions, but inside their heads. The result is an intriguing examination of the pull that war has on men."—Steve Weinberg,Minneapolis Star Tribune
"No biographer at work today has a surer feel for the human dimension of history than Evan Thomas...The War Loversis as good as popular history gets."—Jon Meacham,author ofAmerican Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House