Never an Empire

James Green

As the nineteenth century draws to a close America is at war – a circulation war! In New York the two great leaders of the Yellow Press, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, have gone head to head and nothing sells papers like a real war. Such is the power of the press that they get one. American victory over Spain brings its prizes: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

Meanwhile, in the Philippines a rebel army is already fighting for independence, but the Land of the Free doesn’t want to grant them their wish…