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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

5 Ratings: 3.0
A book by Evan Thomas

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Tags: Books, War, Empire, Theodore Roosevelt, Spanishamerican War
Author: Evan Thomas
Genre: History
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
5 reviews about The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst,...
review by . July 15, 2010
Following America's success in the war against Spain he had longed for and maneuvered desperately to be part of, Theodore Roosevelt declared it the "first great triumph in what will be a world movement" (this phrase was borrowed by Warren Zimmerman in his 2002 First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power, a history cited several times by author Evan Thomas in "The War Lovers"). William Graham Sumner was probably more accurate, though, when he decried "The Conquest of …
review by . March 14, 2010
The War Lovers is a pretty good book both of history telling the story of the Spanish American war through the eyes of Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge and William Randolph Hearst with several interesting side characters.    The premise of the book is really psychological, Roosevelt being haunted by his father's hiring a substitute to fight during the Civil War and Lodge father too ill to serve, combined with their relationship with the Shaws (as in Robert Gould Shaw), Hearst …
review by . March 09, 2010
There have already been many books written about the Spanish-American War and about Teddy Roosevelt. I was skeptical that Evan Thomas' The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 would add anything new. Fortunately, I was wrong. In this well-written, gripping narrative, Thomas brings the rush to war in the 1890s alive. The book is in largely a biography of five of the key participants in the debate around the war: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Randolph …
review by . March 08, 2010
. . . but fails in its attempt to "connect the dots".    Evan Thomas' new book "The War Lovers" is an interesting and provocative read about the events leading up to the Spanish-American war. This is a part of American history that is little-known to most Americans and understudied. The events leading up to the war propelled Theodore Roosevelt to the forefront of national politics -- and eventually to the Presidency. The portrayal of Roosevelt prior to his presidential years …
review by . March 07, 2010
Theodore Roosevelt was famously described by his own daughter as a man who wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. So he'd be pleased about Evan Thomas's new book.    Okay, maybe not that pleased. "The War Lovers" is a sweeping historical overview centered around five American figures during the build-up to the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt's just one of the five, a figure of decided moral blindness in Thomas's view. Yet he comes to dominate …
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