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The statesman and the storyteller : John Hay, Mark Twain, and the rise of American imperialism

Zwonitzer, Mark, author

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\"John Hay, famous as Lincoln's private secretary and later as secretary of state under presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous for being 'Mark Twain,' grew up fifty miles apart, on the banks of the Mississippi River, in the same rural antebellum stew of race and class and want. This shared history helped draw them together when they first met as up-and-coming young men in the late 1860s, and their mutual admiration never waned in spite of sharp differences in personality, in worldview, and in public conduct. In [this book], the last decade of their lives plays out against the tumultuous events of the day, as the United States government begins to aggressively pursue a policy of imperialism, overthrowing the duly elected queen of Hawaii; violently wresting Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines away from Spain, and then from the islands' inhabitants; and finally encouraging and supporting a revolution to clear a path for the building of the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Subject: Hay, John, 1838-1905. / Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. / United States Foreign relations 1897-1901. / United States Foreign relations 1901-1909. / United States Territorial expansion.
• ISBN: 9781565129894, 156512989X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E664.H41 Z96 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE