Show 49 The American Peril

“Max Boot in his book, The Savage Wars of Peace, that write about people like McKinley, like they're the proto-George W. Bush administration.”

“Antietam was one of the worst days of fighting in terms of American dead in U.S. history, and McKinley was there.”

“Roosevelt wrote a book with his intellectual compatriot, Henry Cabot Lodge called Hero Tales, which is almost silly by modern standards by the, you know, nationalistic heroism it conveys.”

“whose ideas about the glory and romance of warfare goes back to, you know, history before Homer's the Iliad.”

“Alfred Thayer Mahan, who wrote this book about how all the great powers of the world were naval powers, and that if you wanted to be a great power, you had to have a great Navy.”

“Writer Evan Thomas has a description of what it was like to suffer from yellow fever.”

“The excerpt discusses a speech by Roosevelt at the Gridiron Club, referencing historian G.J.A. O'Toole's account of Roosevelt's pro-war sentiments regarding Cuba.”

“Mark Twain and many other famous Americans say that this is so against the American national character that we should be ashamed.”

“As historian H.W. Brands wrote, quote, Many Americans had been willing to go along with annexing territory overseas, as long as annexation was cheap and easy.”