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Splendid Liberators: Heroism, Betrayal, Resistance, and the Birth of American Empire

By Joe Jackson
Hardcover
$39.00
By Joe Jackson
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025

This immersive epic reveals the origins of the American empire and the lives of those who promoted it and those who resisted it.

In 1898, the United States gained an empire, and—many allege—lost its soul. In just a few dramatic weeks, American forces wrested Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines from Spanish rule, but their “splendid little war” had a long and difficult aftermath, with the “liberators” facing resistance and resentment and their country temp...

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