Why do the lessons of the Phillipine-American war still feel current more than a century later? Think host Krys Boyd talked to journalist and historian Gregg Jones last year about America's ambition for empire - and how it morphed into something else.
The features of that war are chillingly relevant, as Jones writes about a controversial interrogation tactic called the "water cure" that American soldiers used on a Filipino mayor. The big- and small-picture tie-ins of Jones' Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial Dream are explored in this NY Times review.
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