Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's I Mperial Dream, (Paperback)

from kybunnies

The book was a Goodreads.com First Read contest win.Great book about the history of 2 separate wars America fought. The Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. This book even goes into detail about how Guantanamo was started. This author did his research very well. He included notes...

from ladycato

This easy-to-read and intelligent nonfiction work focuses on the Spanish-American War with an emphasis on American behavior and abuses in the Philippines. I have read many books on Theodore Roosevelt, and while works on his early presidency mention the public relations disaster out of the Philipp...

from Shrike58

If for the knowledgeable Operation Iraqi Freedom generated the spark of recognition of parallels with an earlier colonial war, with its mix of self-promotional bombast, protestations of good intentions, and the all-too-often ghastly results of an unwanted occupation, the author here doesn't have ...

from Shrike58

If for the knowledgeable Operation Iraqi Freedom generated the spark of recognition of parallels with an earlier colonial war, with its mix of self-promotional bombast, protestations of good intentions, and the all-too-often ghastly results of an unwanted occupation, the author here doesn't have ...