Washington, and Andrew Carnegie preached restraint. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Hearst pushed for imperial expansion Mark Twain, Booker T. The country’s best-known political and intellectual leaders took sides. Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire (Henry Holt & Company, 2017 ), his most recent book, “Presents a revealing piece of forgotten history. Stephen has written nine books on foreign affairs. He previously worked as Administrative Assistant to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, and then as Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe. Stephen worked at the New York Times for more than twenty years, serving as bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua. Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than fifty countries on five continents. “Ballston Hitchhiker,” 2009, oil and digital collage on canvas, 40 by 60 inches.
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