Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900

At a time when domestic opposition to U.S. policy in Asia has reached unprecedented levels, this prize-winning book examines the anti-imperialist protest of twelve prominent and strong-minded Americans against the empire seized from Spain in 1898.\nAlthough they did not agree among themselves on all points, these men—whether philosopher (William James), Robber Baron (Andrew Carnegie), ex-President (Benjamin Harrison), perennial dissenter (Carl Schurtz), Speaker of the House (Thomas B. Reed), or closet critic (Charles Eliot Norton)—joined forces with the others in this study and thousands of their countrymen "to warn a nation of optimists that America could not escape the consequences of its own conduct." Their unheeded warning is eloquently renewed in this book.