The true flag
Book • 2016
Stephen Kinzer's 'The True Flag' examines the 1898 debate between imperialists and anti-imperialists in the United States, focusing on figures like Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain.
The book traces how that conflict over overseas expansion shaped the emergence of American global power and established recurring arguments about intervention.
Kinzer connects the moral, political, and economic motivations behind empire-building to later U.S.
foreign policy choices.
Using narrative history and biographical sketches, he shows how the decisions of that era reverberated through subsequent interventions.
The book highlights the tensions between American ideals of self-government and the impulse to dominate abroad.
The book traces how that conflict over overseas expansion shaped the emergence of American global power and established recurring arguments about intervention.
Kinzer connects the moral, political, and economic motivations behind empire-building to later U.S.
foreign policy choices.
Using narrative history and biographical sketches, he shows how the decisions of that era reverberated through subsequent interventions.
The book highlights the tensions between American ideals of self-government and the impulse to dominate abroad.
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