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

Name: The True Flag
Author: Stephen Kinzer

Auteur: Stephen Kinzer

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Stephen Kinzer

Engels
Paperback
9781250159687
23 januari 2018
336 pagina's

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Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer (born August 4, 1951) is an American author, journalist and academic. A former New York Times correspondent, he has published several books, and currently writes for several newspapers and news agencies. During the 1980s, Kinzer covered revolutions and social upheaval in Central America, and wrote his first book, Bitter Fruit, about military coups and destabilization in Guatemala during the 1950s. In 1990, The New York Times appointed Kinzer to head its Berlin bureau,[1] from which he covered Eastern and Central Europe as they emerged from Soviet bloc. Kinzer was the New York Times chief in the newly established bureau in Istanbul (Turkey) from 1996 to 2000.[1] Upon returning to the United States, Kinzer became the newspaper's culture correspondent, based in Chicago, as well as teaching at Northwestern University.[1] Kinzer then took up residence in Boston and began teaching journalism and United States foreign policy at Boston University. He has written several non-fiction books about Turkey, Central America, Iran, and the US overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present, as well as Rwanda's recovery from genocide. Kinzer also contributes columns to The New York Review of Books,[2] The Guardian,[3] and The Boston Globe.[4] He is a Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. (Bron: Wikipedia)

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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. In The True Flag, 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 as the 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 nation 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. Theirwords are amazingly current. Every argument over America's role in the world grows from this one. It all starts here.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 23 januari 2018
Aantal pagina's: 336
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Hoofdauteur: Stephen Kinzer
Hoofduitgeverij: St Martin's Press

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Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 210 mm
Verpakking lengte: 210 mm
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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Oorlogen

Internationale betrekkingen

Politieke wetenschap & Theorie

Periodes

Moderne tijd (1800-1945)

Hedendaagse geschiedenis ( v.a. 1945)

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Taal: Engels
Periode: ca. 1800-1910
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