![]() ![]() Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Hearst pushed for imperial expansion Mark Twain, Booker T. ![]() ![]() Their debate gripped the nation as the best-known political and intellectual leaders took sides. 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. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue whether to intervene in a foreign country. Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted more than a century ago. No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. Then we retreat-until the cycle begins again. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. ![]()
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