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Warren Zimmerman's First Great Triumph

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Warren Zimmerman’s book, First Great Triumph, is a book about five influential men who led the United States to becoming a world power. Zimmerman’s work discusses the United States’ expansion, as the nation essentially began growing from the moment it was founded. The book goes in depth on the roles that these five men, John Hay, Alfred T. Mahan, Henry Cabot Lodge, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt, had in strengthening the power of the United States. Zimmerman also discusses the wars, which led to the United States acquiring both the land and the people of many diverse origins and races who lived on the land. Zimmerman gives details about the ideas of these five men to give the reader background information on them, adding to the historical

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