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About the Book:
On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, yellow newspapers such as William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal whipped Americans into frenzy by claiming that Spain's "secret infernal machine" had destroyed the battleship. Soon after, the blandly handsome and easily influenced President McKinley declared war, sending troops not only to Cuba but also to the Philippines, Spain's sprawling colony on the other side of the world.
As Evan Thomas reveals in his rip-roaring history of those times, the hunger for war had begun years earlier. Depressed by the "closing" of the Western frontier and embracing theories of social Darwinism, a group of warmongers that included a young Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge agitated loudly and incessantly that the United States exert its influence across the seas. These hawks would transform American foreign policy and, when Teddy ascended to the presidency, commence with a devastating war without reason, concocted within the White House--a bloody conflict that would come at tremendous cost.
Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, THE WAR LOVERS is the story of six men at the center of a transforming event in U.S. history: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, McKinley, William James, and Thomas Reed, and confirms once more than Evan Thomas is a popular historian of the first rank.
About the Author:
Evan Thomas has been the Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek since 1991. He is the bestselling author of six works of nonfiction: Sea of Thunder, John Paul Jones, Robert Kennedy, The Very Best Men, The Man to See, and The Wise Men. He lives with his wife and children in Washington, D.C.
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5 Comments on Audio Book Giveaway: The War Lovers by Evan Thomas, last added: 5/7/2010
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One of my favorite British history authors is Alison Weir. My favorite of her nonfiction books is The Princes in The Tower which is about the end reign of the Plantagenets (especially regarding the two young princes that were locked away in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard). Richard took over the crown that should have gone to the eldest prince and the boys "mysteriously" dissapeared from the tower never to be seen from again. Ms. Weir gives loads of evidence of what probably happened and it reads like a novel it is so good!
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I loved reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. It is about the history of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century. Her words made me feel like I was actually there.
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A book on history I recommend is Night by Elie Wiesel. It's about the holocaust.
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If you have not yet read or listened to it, you need to get a copy of IMPERIAL CRUISE by James Bradley. It will give you an entirely different view of our history and especially Teddy Roosevelt.
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True Compass was great. It covered the life of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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