Soldiers of FortuneBroadview Press, 2006 M06 2 - 272 pages A romance of America’s nascent imperial power, Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune recounts the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and generals, threatens the American-owned Valencia Mining Company, Clay organizes his workers and the handful of Americans visiting the mine into a counter-coup force. Written on the eve of the Spanish-American War, Soldiers of Fortune casts the young American as the dashing, hypermasculine hero of the new military and economic. A huge best-seller, the novel did its part to push the nation into war against Spain, and stands as one of the most important texts in the literature of American imperialism. The appendices, which bring together primary materials by writers and politicians such as Rebecca Harding Davis, Theodore Roosevelt, Jose Martí, Mark Twain, Herbert Spencer, and others, address such issues as social Darwinism, masculinity, and ideas of Anglo-American superiority. |
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... King of the Filibusters " ( 1906 ) • 251 3. From Theodore Roosevelt , " The Strenuous Life " ( 10 April 1899 ) • 252 4. From William James , " Letter on Governor Roosevelt's Oration " ( 15 April 1899 ) 255 Appendix F : Davis and Others ...
... push the US along the road to war in Vietnam . 2 Arthur Lubow , The Reporter Who Would be King ( New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1992 ) , 124 . and the Philippines.1 Soldiers , currently enjoying a resurgence of SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE 11.
... King ( 1992 ) and The Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis ( New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1917 ) , compiled and edited by Davis ' brother , Charles Belmont Davis . ditions and short , brutal lives of immigrant ...
... king and his betrothed , Princess Flavia . 2 Geographically , Central America is an isthmus , or a narrow strip of land connecting two larger territories ; hence , anyone who lives in Central America may be referred to as an " isthmian ...
... King ( 1992 ) , two other biographies explored the author's life : Fairfax Downey's engaging ( if somewhat baggy ) Richard Harding Davis : His Day ( 1933 ) and Gerald Langford's excellent critical study , The Richard Harding Davis Years ...