from NathanHoover

A thorough accounting of one of the most misunderstood wars in American history and the battle over the role of the United States in the 20th century. The author explores the debate between imperialism and isolationism within the scope of the ideology of the founding of the country and the questi...

from Schmerguls

5477. The True Flag Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire, by Stephen Kinzer (read 17 Jun 2017) This is an easy-to-read account of the fight to prevent the U.S. from becoming an empire. It tells of the fight against Teddy Roosevelt and Senator Lodge to prevent the U.S. ...

from stevesmits

This well-conceived book tells of America's ambivalence with policies of expansionism and intervention in the world. Throughout the twentieth century America's foreign policy has included periods and episodes of active intervention ranging from imperialistic-style colonialism to covert and overt ...

from fuzzy_patters

I really enjoyed reading this book, which wasn't so much about Roosevelt and Twain precisely as it was a general history of the the expansionist and anti-expansionist movements that Roosevelt and Twain were a part of. The author makes the argument that this was the fundamental question of what th...

from abealy

At the start of the twentieth century America faced a choice that has still not been resolved at the start of the twenty-first. Divided about whether to pursue an expansionist agenda - mostly to the benefit of commerce and industry, or to follow an isolationist course, believing that "every natio...