First Great Triumph (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Warren Zimmermann
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1838-1937
- Setting: Washington, D.C., Cuba, the Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Panama
- Principal Characters: John Hay, Alfred T. Mahan, Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge, George Dewey, Leonard Wood, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Washington, D.C., War, Politicians, Cuba or Cubans, Reformers, Philippines or Filipinos, Imperialism, Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans, Hawaii, Geopolitics, Statesmen, Panama or Panamanians
- Locales: Washington, D.C., Cuba, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Panama
The lives of the five men Warren Zimmermann credits with engineering the rise of the United States to the status of world power span a century. John Hay, the eldest, was born in 1838, and Elihu Root, who lived the longest, died in 1937. Zimmermann devotes five of the six substantial chapters of part 1 of his study to biographical sketches of the five, before he focuses part 2, “Imperial America,” on American foreign policy in the final years of the nineteenth century and the initial years of the twentieth—with the major emphasis on the year 1898, when the United States achieved...
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