Ep. 854 Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The debates and policies that gave rise to American empire occurred at the very end of the nineteenth century, in conflicts that found Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain at odds. Author Stephen Kinzer joins me to discuss the transformation of America away from nonintervention and toward empire.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 854. |
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| 0:30.1 | Hello everybody. Tom Woods here. Talking about the birth of the American Empire. |
| 0:34.9 | Talking about the events that brought it into being and brought the issues |
| 0:39.8 | connected to it into very clear focus. And to do this, I'm joined today by Stephen Kinzer, |
| 0:48.3 | who is the author most recently of a wonderful book I highly recommend, The True Flag, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and |
| 0:57.0 | The Birth of American Empire. Stephen Kinzer served for more than 20 years as the New York |
| 1:02.9 | Times Bureau Chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua, and as the Boston Globe's Latin America |
| 1:08.7 | correspondent. Since leaving the Times, he's taught journalism, political science, and international relations |
| 1:13.9 | at Northwestern University and Boston University. |
| 1:17.4 | He's a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University |
| 1:22.0 | and writes a column on world affairs for the Boston Globe. |
| 1:26.2 | He's the author of many books, including The Brothers, |
| 1:29.4 | John Foster Dulles, Alan Dulles, and Their Secret World War, Overthrow, America's Century of Regime Change |
| 1:37.0 | from Hawaii to Iraq, and All the Shaws Men, an American coup, and the Roots of Middle East |
| 1:43.3 | Terror. |
| 1:45.8 | Stephen Kinzer, welcome to the show. |
| 1:47.0 | Good to be with you. |
| 1:51.7 | I wanted to have you on for previous books, actually, and for some reason never got around to it, |
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