War Lovers
The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, Evan Thomas, discusses how Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst fabricated evidence of a Spanish attack and pressed President McKinley to start the Spanish-American War. In The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898, he explains how that war would turn into a bloody quagmire that would come at tremendous cost.
