Ordeal of the Union[The book] will take its place as the standard history of the eighteen-fifties. Our armies in Mexico had won victory after victory. But victory in war does not invariably spell an untroubled peace. This was the lesson that America was to learn for the first time in the year from 1847 to 1852. And this is the theme of [the book] in which [the author] explores the state of our civilization after the war with Mexico...Every aspect of American life is touched upon, including the state of education, popular culture, religion, and the impulse toward reform. |
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Enter the Pleasant Mr Pierce | 3 |
Rending Factions | 43 |
1854 | 78 |
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