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The Presidents Speak

Those leading in the era of social media need no convincing of the importance of words, but often true meaning can get lost in the noise. When we forget the impact of what we say can have, it is often best to return to those who said it best. One book that has continuously aimed to collect the words of some of the United States’ most influential figures is, The Presidents Speak. Its newest edition, released in 2018, composes speeches made by each of the first forty-five U.S. Presidents.

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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power

This book is about imperialism, which was not popular in the late 19th century, and is often communicated through the actions of John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Alfred Mahan, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt. These five leaders acted on “Americanism” or “large policy,” and occasionally as “expansionism” for the dreams of future global power to be enjoyed outside the shadow of a tyrannical government the United States rebelled against only a century prior. Warren Zimmermann outlines the book in two parts, with the first concentrating on the abridged biographies of each man. The second part concentrated on the recounting of events bringing each man into American imperialism. The writing in this book is a mixture of history, explanation, needless information, and networked ideology connected through the actions of leaders willing and capable to bring Americans from the land of the free and the home of the brave to imperial occupiers with false hope of democracy. 

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