"The Splendid Little War is the compelling story of this often overlooked conflict, told largely in the words of the participants themselves. It was a war peopled by the famous and those soon to be: Teddy Roosevelt, Stephen Crane, Clara Barton, and William Jennings Bryan are among those who played key roles in the war against Spain. Above all, as Freidel writes, the Spanish-American War marked the end of an era: "Beyond the 'splended little war' hung the indefinite shadow of world cataclysm...Few Americans dreamed how different the United States would be afterwards.""--BOOK JACKET.