Gore vidal empire series5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Policy of dilation and incorporation answered strategic and ideological imperatives of the day, the old cry of Manifest Destiny, and the old itch, in eruption earlier during General Grant's occupation of the White House, to achieveĪ commanding American presence in the Caribbean and Central America, Nicaragua in particular.Ĭommenting on the extermination of more than 100,000 Filipino insurgents who, starting in 1899, rejected the colonizing bear hug of their North American brothers, Mark Twain welcomed the United States to pre-eminence in the ''Blessings-of-Civilization Continued by his successor, Theodore Roosevelt, President William McKinley's By 1905 we had also established proprietary protectorates over Panama and the Dominican Republic as well as Cuba. ![]() That already included the Hawaiian Islands. ''IT has been a splendid little war,'' wrote John Hay, a central historical figure in Gore Vidal's new novel, during the summer of 1898, a war ''begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligenceĪnd spirit, favored by that fortune which loves the brave.'' As reward for 10 weeks of intermittent land and sea combat with Spain, the United States acquired Puerto Rico and added Guam and the Philippines to a Pacific empire Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy JUSTIN KAPLAN Justin Kaplan has written biographies of Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Lincoln Steffens.ĮMPIRE By Gore Vidal. ![]() June 14, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition ![]()
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