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[C. G. Estabrook]

The United States was founded as an “infant empire,” in the words of George 
Washington. The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture. 
 From the earliest days, control over the hemisphere was a critical goal.

Latin America has retained its primacy in U.S. global planning. If the United 
States cannot control Latin America, it cannot expect “to achieve a successful 
order elsewhere in the world,” observed President Richard M. Nixon’s National 
Security Council in 1971, when Washington was considering the overthrow of 
Salvador Allende’s government in Chile.

[From http://inthesetimes.com/article/4864/militarizing_latin_america/>.]

rlangenh at illinois.edu wrote:
> May I recommend:' Whyte, Kenneth, The Uncrowned King: the Sensational Rise of
> William Randolph; Hearst, 2009, Counterpoint, Berkeley.  This is a
> revisionist biography of Hearst and perhaps more rational account of the
> Cuban crisis and the Spanish American war.  It is at striking variance from
> the story told in W. A. Swanberg's. 'Citizen Hearst,'I and in Orson Welles
> cinematic version of Swanberg, 'Citizen Kane.' 'Whyte is editor of McLean's,
> probably the most respected Canadian magazine and it tells a fantastic story
> in a non-sensational manner.  You may want to revise your attitude toward the
> initiation of America's venture into big time world politics and
> "imperialism."