PREVIEW: Radio War Nerd #148—Spanish-American War, Neocons & Anti-Interventionists, with Stephen Kinzer
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Recorded September 7, 2018
For non-subscribers, here is a 20+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode 148 with Stephen Kinzer on the Spanish-American War. Kinzer is the author of perhaps the only good book on that crummy war: "The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and the Birth of American Empire". In this RWN episode, Kinzer helps the War Nerd recover the incredible lost history of the Spanish-American War. Teddy Roosevelt's gang would be considered fascist psychopaths today, and Twain said as much at the time. But the real lost story is the brutal Philippines Insurgency that followed the war, and the incredible debates in the US between imperialists and anti-imperialists that went on at the time, before it was a sure thing that the US was going full neocon imperialist.
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Buy Stephen Kinzer's book "True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain & the Birth of American Empire" & read his articles on his blog. Follow Kinzer on Twitter. Stephen Kinzer is Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
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