First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
- ISBN-10
- 0374179395
- ISBN-13
- 9780374179397
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 562
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Author
- Warren Zimmermann
Description
Documents how the United States rose to a significant world power one century ago through the actions of five political figures, including Theodore Roosevelt, naval strategist Alfred T. Mahan, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Secretary of State John Hay, and colonial administrator Elihu Root.
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- 2004-01-15
- 576 pages
- Paperback
- Macmillan
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