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Splendid Liberators: The Spanish-American War and the Pursuit of Empire

Splendid Liberators: The Spanish-American War and the Pursuit of Empire

Jackson, Joe

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Publisher Price: $30.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 13, 2026

ISBN10: 1250448298
ISBN13: 9781250448293
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Oct 13 2026
Pages: 832
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

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 tempted by imperial ambition.

In Splendid Liberators, the prizewinning historian Joe Jackson offers an epic narrative of the Spanish-American War, an overlooked conflict that nonetheless created the template for later adventures and misadventures abroad. Jackson brings our first major overseas intervention to full, teeming life with portraits of its many leading characters, among them José Martí, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Clara Barton, and Mark Twain. Along the way, Jackson explores the heroic theaters of San Juan Hill and Manila Bay, disease-wracked encampments, and the smoky halls of Congress, where politicians debated the ethics of manifest destiny.

Prodigiously researched, Splendid Liberators draws on American, Cuban, and Filipino sources to reveal the reality of the conflict. The result is a major work of narrative nonfiction that gauges the consequences of a pivotal war.

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