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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... means , was poised on the verge of greatness , had always been destined to take its place alongside the great powers . The dreams and desires of Manifest Destiny were still very much alive , and the country now possessed the power to ...
... means seizing power in Olancho . Men such as Davis and Roosevelt feared that young American men would grow soft , would fall into timidity and sloth if they were not challenged on the field of battle or the plains of empire . To their ...
... . Tillie Olsen ( New York : Feminist Press , 1985 ) , 34 . 2 For a fuller excerpt from this key passage in " Life in the Iron - Mills , " see Appendix D3 . and soul , but rather a means to social and SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE 27.
Richard Harding Davis Brady Harrison. and soul , but rather a means to social and political development . He answers his mother's charge that capitalism has broken the promise of the New World ; the Americas , he insists , have only just ...