![]() ![]() ![]() Henry Cabot Lodge, the Washington insider Theodore Roosevelt and the publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. Kinzer skillfully presents an immediate sense of the heated debate that gripped the country, centering around the jingoist triumvirate of Massachusetts Sen. In this well-focused history, Kinzer 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. Derived from a Kirkus review: A timely work on the Spanish-American War of 1898-and how that history relates to the ongoing debate regarding American imperialism. He has written several non-fiction books about Turkey, Central America, Iran, the US overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present, as well as Rwanda's recovery from genocide. ![]() In 1990, The New York Times appointed Kinzer as the head its Berlin bureau, from which he covered Eastern and Central Europe as they emerged from Soviet rule. During the 1980s Kinzer covered revolution and social upheaval in Central America, as well as published his first book, Bitter Fruit, about military coups and destabilization in Guatemala during the 1950s. He was a New York Times correspondent, has published several books, and currently writes for several newspapers and news agencies. Stephen Kinzer (born August 4, 1951) is an American author, journalist and academic. ![]()
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