Matthew Bernstein teaches English at Harris Newmark High School and Los Angeles City College. He is editor of the Wild West History Association Journal and the author of George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age.

“The American empire sprawled at the end of the nineteenth century in an expansion that owed much to the ‘team of giants’ that Michael Bernstein describes. Now we have all these agents of empire in one place. Bernstein’s lively and energetic study of the Spanish-American War takes us from the New York parlors and newsrooms to the battlefield trenches and tropical jungles.”—Michael Patrick Cullinane, author of Theodore Roosevelt’s Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon“An entertaining snapshot of the United States through the eyes and actions of a group of key players. Though few in number, their stations—assistant secretary of the navy, publishing titan, Congressman, then battlefield general—allowed them to apply pressure at key moments to bring the United States to war, and the war to a successful conclusion.”—Edward P. Kohn, author of Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt

Matthew Bernstein teaches English at Harris Newmark High School and Los Angeles City College. He is editor of the Wild West History Association Journal and the author of George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age.

“The American empire sprawled at the end of the nineteenth century in an expansion that owed much to the ‘team of giants’ that Michael Bernstein describes. Now we have all these agents of empire in one place. Bernstein’s lively and energetic study of the Spanish-American War takes us from the New York parlors and newsrooms to the battlefield trenches and tropical jungles.”—Michael Patrick Cullinane, author of Theodore Roosevelt’s Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon“An entertaining snapshot of the United States through the eyes and actions of a group of key players. Though few in number, their stations—assistant secretary of the navy, publishing titan, Congressman, then battlefield general—allowed them to apply pressure at key moments to bring the United States to war, and the war to a successful conclusion.”—Edward P. Kohn, author of Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt

Matthew Bernstein teaches English at Harris Newmark High School and Los Angeles City College. He is editor of the Wild West History Association Journal and the author of George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age.

“The American empire sprawled at the end of the nineteenth century in an expansion that owed much to the ‘team of giants’ that Michael Bernstein describes. Now we have all these agents of empire in one place. Bernstein’s lively and energetic study of the Spanish-American War takes us from the New York parlors and newsrooms to the battlefield trenches and tropical jungles.”—Michael Patrick Cullinane, author of Theodore Roosevelt’s Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon“An entertaining snapshot of the United States through the eyes and actions of a group of key players. Though few in number, their stations—assistant secretary of the navy, publishing titan, Congressman, then battlefield general—allowed them to apply pressure at key moments to bring the United States to war, and the war to a successful conclusion.”—Edward P. Kohn, author of Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt