Bill Kauffman on the Mexican War
In A Wicked War, Bill Kauffman reports, the Penn State historian Amy S. Greenberg does a splendid job of vivifying the Mexican War by following the fortunes of five men and their families. Their lives teach us, in Greenberg's words, that "patriotism, in early 1848, required something other than mindless consent to an endless war."
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