na INLIS000000000004539 20221114023217 0010-0520004539 221114 | | eng 0-374-52893-4 eng 973.099 973.099 ZIM f Zimmermann, Warren First Great Triumph : How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power / Warren Zimmermann Farrar, Straus, and Giroux : Cambridge University Press, 2002 xii, 526 p. : illus. ; 21 cm. Indeks : p.553-562 p.537-548 The 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. United States-History-1865-1921-Biography Spanish-American War, 1898. 09254/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09254/MKRI-P/XI-2008