Captain Jinks, Hero
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Subjects: Didactic fiction; Social problems -- Fiction; Political fiction
Description: <p>A biting satire of late 19th-century American imperialism, <i>Captain Jinks, Hero</i> was written by the American pacifist <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-howard-crosby">Ernest Howard Crosby</a>. Crosby, who corresponded with <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leo-tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a> and advocated Tolstoy’s pacifist ideals in the United States, lambasts the American military and its involvement in the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Rebellion through the character of Captain Jinks, a jingoistic officer who embarks on a tragicomic quest to become a “perfect soldier.” The novel also satirizes the role of industrial and media interests in promoting war through the character of Jinks’s friend and companion Cleary, a yellow journalist who feeds sensational stories back to the home front at the behest of editors and monopolists.</p>