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I mean it’s cliché, but history does not repeat itself exactly, it rhymes.

I mean at Newsweek I am forever using bits of history to inform my journalism and when I’m writing history I definitely use the tropes of journalism … certainly the writing skills that I’ve learned as a journalist … so I find the two play on each other all the time. I’ve shamelessly mixed the two all the time. Indeed, I’d like to ask my guest today about that mix of history and journalism … and whether we can can really distinguish the one from the other? Now that’s been a very unpopular question when I’ve put it to your fellow journalists. As much splendid history and biography as Evan Thomas has written, he has for too many years been a journalist -particularly as a writer and editor at Time and Newsweek magazines – for The War Lovers not to be quite present minded.

Now, this is not a book about America’s past alone, to be sure. I’m Richard Heffner, your host on The Open Mind.Īnd this is the second of two programs with journalist, historian, biographer Evan Thomas, whose most recent volume is Little, Brown’s The War Lovers, his compelling account of America’s rush to empire at the end of the 19th century, and the roles played in that rush by Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Randolph Hearst and other quite extraordinary figures.