Ep. 854 Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
The Tom Woods Show
English - February 21, 2017 19:42 - 33 minutes - 23 MB - ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratingsNews Government libertarian politics economics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The debates and policies that gave rise to American empire occurred at the very end of the nineteenth century, in conflicts that found Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain at odds. Author Stephen Kinzer joins me to discuss the transformation of America away from nonintervention and toward empire.