[eltee88]

I’m looking for some recommendations for books about the Spanish-American War.
The whole concept of America ending up in possession of far flung places is intriguing to me.

[cboyack]

I bought this on clearance several weeks ago and have not read it, but it looks interesting: The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

There’s also a chapter on the Spanish-American War in The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories, available from mises,org.

With the Exception of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, the Spanish-American War seems to be sparsely covered in American History these days…maybe if that weren’t the case, we wouldn’t be rushing to establish our Empire…

[woods]

In addition to the above recommendations, the relevant sections of Walter LaFeber’s book The New Empire are useful; for the Philippine aspect of the story, see Stuart Creighton Miller, “Benevolent Assimilation”: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899–1903 (1982) and Daniel B. Schirmer, Republic or Empire: American Resistance to the Philippine War (1972).

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