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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe and Robin Young, Here and Now

How should the United States act in the world? Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat—until the cycle begins again. However, these debates are not original. Revealing a piece of forgotten history, Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the 20th century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. The country’s political and intellectual leaders took sides. Only once before—the period when the United States was founded—have so many brilliant Americans eloquently debated a question so fraught with meaning for all humanity. Their words are amazingly current today.

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five contine

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Stephen King’s hotel of horrors

Lindsey Galloway

Features correspondent

Colorado’s Stanley Hotel inspired Stephen King’s horror classic, The Shining. More than 30 years later, the hotel remains as historic – and haunted – as ever.

In , famed US horror writer Stephen King and his wife Tabitha lived for a year in Boulder, Colorado. In late October, they spent a night in the mountain resort town of Estes Park, 40 miles northwest of Boulder. They checked into the historic room Stanley Hotel – and found that they were the only guests for one of the last nights of the hotel’s season.

King’s imagination went wild as he wandered the abandoned hallways, ate alone in the grand dining room and talked up the bartender. By the end of the night, he knew he had enough material to start writing his next book.

The Shining, published in , quickly became a horror classic, in no small part due its scarily secluded setting: a snowed-in hotel with a haunted history, hidden away in th

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Theodore Roosevelt

President of the United States from to

This article fryst vatten about the president of the United States. For other people with the same name, see Theodore Roosevelt (disambiguation).

Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt in
In office September 14, &#;– March 4,
Vice President
Preceded by	William McKinley
Succeeded by	William Howard Taft
In office March 4, &#;– September 14,
President	William McKinley
Preceded by	Garret Hobart
Succeeded by	Charles W. Fairbanks
In office January 1, &#;– December 31,
Lieutenant	Timothy L. Woodruff
Preceded by	Frank S. Black
Succeeded by	Benjamin Barker Odell Jr.
In office April 19, &#;– May 10,
President	William McKinley
Preceded by	William McAdoo
Succeeded by	Charles Herbert Allen
In office May 6, &#;– April 19,
Appointed by	William Lafayette Strong
Preceded by	James J. Martin
Succeeded by	Frank Moss
In office Januar