The War Lovers

This national bestselling history of late 19th century American war fever is “compulsively readable . . . hard to forget and hard to put down.”* On February fifteen, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. Some in the United States greeted the event with more enthusiasm than alarm. Dismayed by the “closing” of the Western frontier, politicians Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge wanted to see their country exert its muscle overseas. The sinking of the M