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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat?until the cycle begins again. Revealing a piece of forgotten history, Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
viii, 422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence. This book is the story of the momentous years leading up to that event, and of the very different paths that brought together two figures of the era: President William McKinley and anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The two men seemed to live in eerily parallel Americas. The United States was undergoing an uneasy...
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