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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