Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire, Chapter 6: “Shouting the Battle Cry of

Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire, Chapter 6: “Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom”
What justifications and rationales did foreign policy elites in the United States use to “manufacture” the “consent” of their fellow Americans in endorsing expensive foreign military conquests?  What did most Americans believe were the reasons behind the U.S. intervening in Hawaii and then going to war with Spain and then the Philippines? What were these same foreign policy elites saying behind closed doors to each other about the real motivations?
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