01371     2200253   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001800097041000800115082001200123084001800135100002300153245010000176260006800276300003600344500002300380504001400403520057200417650004600989650003201035990002501067990002501092INLIS00000000000453920221114023217  a0010-0520004539221114                |          | eng    a0-374-52893-4  aeng  a973.099  a973.099 ZIM f0 aZimmermann, Warren1 aFirst Great Triumph :bHow Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power /cWarren Zimmermann  aFarrar, Straus, and Giroux :bCambridge University Press,c2002  axii, 526 p. :billus. ;c21 cm.  aIndeks : p.553-562  ap.537-548  aThe United States became an imperial nation a century ago, exploding onto the international scene within a period of five years ( 1898-1903 ). How did the nationbecome aplayer in world politics so suddenly and what inspired the move? Warren Zimmermann has found the answers in the lives of five men: the hyperenergetic Theodore Roosevelt; the ascetic naval strategist Alfred T. Mahan; the bigoted and wily senator Henry Cabot Lodge; the self-doubting, moderate secretary of state John Hay; and the hard-edged corporate lawyer turned colonial administrator Elihu Root. 4aUnited States-History-1865-1921-Biography 4aSpanish-American War, 1898.  a09254/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09254/MKRI-P/XI-2008