=LDR 00000nam 2200000 4500 =001 INLIS000000000004539 =005 20221114023217 =035 ##$$a 0010-0520004539 =008 221114################|##########|#eng## =020 ##$$a 0-374-52893-4 =041 $$a eng =082 ##$$a 973.099 =084 ##$$a 973.099 ZIM f =100 #$$a Zimmermann, Warren =245 1#$$a First Great Triumph : $b How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power /$c Warren Zimmermann =260 ##$$a Farrar, Straus, and Giroux :$b Cambridge University Press,$c 2002 =300 ##$$a xii, 526 p. : $b illus. ; $c 21 cm. =500 ##$$a Indeks : p.553-562 =504 ##$$a p.537-548 =520 ##$$a 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. =650 4$$a United States-History-1865-1921-Biography =650 4$$a Spanish-American War, 1898. =990 ##$$a 09254/MKRI-P/XI-2008 =990 ##$$a 09254/MKRI-P/XI-2008