![]() During a “ravenous fifty-five day spasm” in the summer of 1898, the United States “asserted control” over these far-flung nations-totaling 11 million people-by handily defeating the Spanish fleet and thus acquiring rather suddenly an overseas empire. In this engaging, well-focused history, Kinzer ( The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World, 2013, etc.), a former New York Times bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua and Boston Globe Latin America correspondent, plunges into the heated conversations in Washington and the tabloids over American expansionist designs on Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam at the turn of the 19th century. ![]() A timely work on the vociferous sides taken over the Spanish-American War of 1898-and how that history relates to the ongoing debate regarding American imperialism. ![]()
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