The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire BY STEPHEN KINZER ST. MARTIN’S GRIFFIN, 336 PAGES, $9.89 – By the end of the 19th century, America’s borders had spread across the continent from shore to shore.… Continue Reading
Quoted from Theodore Roosevelt’s 1894 book The Winning of the West, in which he presents his defense for territorial expansion of superior races: Many good persons seem prone to speak of all wars of conquest as necessarily evil. This is… Continue Reading
The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln-Teddy Roosevelt-Wilson How the Income Tax Transformed America BY STEVEN R. WEISMAN SIMON & SCHUSTER, 432 PAGES, $25.99 – Wars naturally consolidate and centralize government, leading to a greater flow of wealth to those in power.… Continue Reading