Splendid liberators : heroism, betrayal, resistance, and the birth of American empire / Joe Jackson.
| Author/creator | Jackson, Joe, 1955- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. |
| Description | xx, 786 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prologue: "Had the Nation Gone Mad?" -- Part I: "What is a Nation?" Martyrs -- Watchmen -- The Wanderer -- Making Good -- The Voice of America -- The Young and the Restless -- "I Was a Rebel Once, Too" -- Part II: The Mob. The Spark -- "All I Wanted Was More Time" -- Promises -- Gathering Tribes -- The Pleasure Dome -- Part III: Liberators. Invaders -- The Royal Road -- The Heights -- The Altar of Vanity -- The Fear -- "We Are Not Savages" -- Coming Home -- Part IV: The American Century. The Other War -- The Republic of Self-Restraint -- "My Principles Are Yours" -- The Far Side of the World -- Pursued -- The American Century -- The Will of the People -- Winners and Martyrs -- "Between Them and Us is a Chasm" -- "The Better You Will Please Me" -- War by Any Name -- Exiles -- Epilogue: The Reckoning |
| Abstract | "A new history of the Spanish-American War, spanning the US adventures and misadventures in Cuba and the Philippines, and paying particular attention to unsung characters such as Frederick Funston and David Fagen"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | In 1898, the United States won an empire, and--many allege--lost its soul. In Splendid Liberators, Joe Jackson offers an epic narrative of the Spanish-American War, the world-spanning conflict during which the United States freed Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines from Spanish control only to confront resistance and resentment. The acclaimed author of Black Elk, Jackson brings the times to full, teeming life via portraits of the many leading characters--from the impetuous warrior Teddy Roosevelt, the prophetic Cuban revolutionary José Martí, and the Philippines' dignified first president, Emilio Aguinaldo, to the Red Cross's Clara Barton and the foe of empire Mark Twain. He ranges from the heroic theaters of San Juan Hill and Manila Bay to disease-wracked camps in Florida and Cuba where soldiers died en masse and to the White House and halls of Congress, where America's leaders overcame enduring reluctances to seize an overseas dominion. He also follows the exploits of the legendary African American soldier David Fagen, who joined the rebels of the Philippines and fought his compatriots, and the swashbuckling Colonel Fred Funston, who was dispatched into the jungle to hunt him down. Overturning familiar scripts, Splendid Liberators is the first work of narrative nonfiction to look at this far-flung war through American, Cuban, and Filipino eyes, and to gauge the consequences and costs of America's first major imperial adventure. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 661-748) and index. |
| Genre/form | HIS027130. |
| Genre/form | HIS048000. |
| Genre/form | HIS027110. |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| LCCN | 2025012963 |
| ISBN | 9780374191900 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0374191905 (hardcover) |