In 1898, Theodore Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was anxious to test his mettle on the field of battle, William Randolph Hearst was eager to stoke the flames of conflict (and join in on the spectacle), and it took just an accident of engineering to start a war.Evan Thomas paints a picture of enthusiastic imperialists and a American mindset in which "manifest destiny" seemed natural in his book THE WAR LOVERS, an account of the Spanish-American War.
LISTEN: EVAN THOMAS - THE WAR LOVERS
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