Teddy Roosevelt and the Rush to War

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

Evan Thomas on Obama and new media journalism

Newsweek senior editor Evan Thomas has won numerous journalism awards for the type of feature-style pieces that take weeks or months to research and write. Often Thomas would work under an "embargo," speaking to sources and gaining access to figures on the understanding that the story the writer was working on would not be released until after, for instance, an election.

With the rise of the blogs and the demise of the market-share for publications like Newsweek, does that mean that the style of journalism practiced by Thomas is also in danger?

Thomas discusses the future of Newsweek and gives his thoughts on the subject of one of his award-winning depth pieces, Barack Obama...

LISTEN: EVAN THOMAS - NEWSWEEK & OBAMA