First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Countrya World Power,

Authors

Cole C. Kingseed

Abstract

The path of America’s rise to global dominance has always attracted the at- tention of distinguished historians and political scientists, ranging from Henry Adams to Walter LaFeber to Stephen E. Ambrose. Warren Zimmermann, a thirty-three-year veteran of the Foreign Service, joins the fray with First Great Triumph, a provocative analysis of the “fathers of American imperialism” at the onset of the twentieth century. Zimmermann examines how President Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan, Secretary of State John Hay, and Secretary of War Elihu Root engineered American imperial expan- sion in the decade from 1898 to 1908.

Recommended Citation

Kingseed, Cole C. (2004) "First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Countrya World Power,," Naval War College Review: Vol. 57: No. 1, Article 33.
Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol57/iss1/33