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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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author, published "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783" in 1980; advocate for sea power and Western imperialism; American's "destiny" was to control the Caribbean , build the Panama Canal, spread Western civilization across the Pacific
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yellow journalism
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type of journalism; 1890s; newspaper empires of William Randolph and Joseph Pulitzer manipulated public through senestional headlines about real and invented events
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de Lome letter
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Spanish ambassador Depuy de Lome wrote a letter to a friend in Havana describing President McKinley as "weak" and seeking public admiration; letter was stolen and published in the "New York Journal"; increased the public's dislike of Spain
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