What So Proudly We Hailed - Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812Paperback / softback
What So Proudly We Hailed - Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812Paperback / softback With distrust between the political parties running deep and Congress divided, the government of…
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What So Proudly We Hailed - Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812Paperback / softback
With distrust between the political parties running deep and Congress divided, the government of the United States goes to war. The executive branch suffers from managerial confusion and in-fighting. The war is waged without adequately preparing the means to finance it or readying suitable contingency plans to contend with its unanticipated complications.
The conflict drags on longer than predicted. The military invades a foreign country, expecting to be greeted as liberators, but encounters stiff, unwelcome resistance. It ends rather inconclusively--or so it seems in its aftermath.Sound familiar?
This all happened two hundred years ago.What So Proudly We Hailed looks at the War of 1812 in part through the lens of today's America. On the bicentennial of that formative yet largely forgotten period in U.S. history, this provocative book asks: What did Americans
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