Architects of Empire

The Washington Post | November 17, 2002| | Copyright

FIRST GREAT TRIUMPH

How Five Americans

Made Their Country a World Power

By Warren Zimmermann

Farrar Straus Giroux. 562 pp. $30

America became an imperial power little more than a century ago. Echoes of 1898 haunt the network news, and this newspaper. Warren Zimmermann, a career diplomat, sees the preliminaries to the Spanish- American War, when hawks both in and out of government proposed "outside intervention on human rights grounds," as the beginnings of American globalism. In First Great Triumph, he credits an informal cabal of five -- Henry Cabot Lodge, an ambitious Massachusetts senator; ...

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