Robert Kennedy: His Life The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge. Evan Thomas discussed his book at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. Evan Thomas is the author of The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the C.I.A. He contends that the incident was trumped up to spur support for war. The author examined the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, and argued that there was no evidence implicating the Spanish for the attack. Teddy Roosevelt looms larger than the rest, just as he did in life. T10:03:29-04:00 Evan Thomas, assistant managing editor of Newsweek, recounts the lead-up to the Spanish-American War and profiles three men who he asserts were eager to go to war: Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Hearst, as well as three men who were wary about going to war: Thomas Reed, William James, and President William McKinley. This story of the Spanish American War of 1898 is told from the perspective of five men: Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Randolph Hearst, Thomas Brackett Reed, and William James.
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