http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/presidential-candidates Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:45:35 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:45:35 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1246/the-war-lovers-again-what-the-foreign-policy-advisers-of-presidential-candidates-may-tell-us-about-future-us-foreign-policy By Elizabeth Sanders - Evan Thomas's recent book, The War Lovers, chronicles the "monumental turning point" of the U.S. declaration of war against Spain in 1898, and the small circle of men who pressed for war, and for an American empire. The central figures, for Thomas, were Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; his friend Henry Cabot Lodge, hawkish senator and foreign policy adviser to President McKinley; and William Randolph Hearst, editor of the New York Journal, whose paper did its upmost to fan war fervor in 1897-8. These men were inspired by, and had the strong support of Alfred Thayer Mahan a... Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1246/the-war-lovers-again-what-the-foreign-policy-advisers-of-presidential-candidates-may-tell-us-about-future-us-foreign-policy