What So Proudly We Hailed
Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812
With distrust between the political parties running deep and Congress divided, the government of the United States goes to war. The war is waged without adequately preparing the means to finance it or readying suitable contingency plans to contend with its unanticipated complications. The executive branch suffers from managerial confusion and in-fighting. The military invades a foreign country, expecting to be greeted as liberators, but encounters stiff, unwelcome resistance. The conflict drags on longer than predicted. It ends rather inconclusively-or so it seems in its aftermath.Sound familiar? This all happened two hundred years ago. What…
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Weitere Autoren: Kastor, Peter J. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8157-2415-5
- EAN: 9780815724155
- Produktnummer: 22220063
- Verlag: Brookings Institution Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 164 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 730 KB
Über den Autor
Pietro S. Nivola is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the C. Douglas Dillon Chair in Governance Studies. He is coeditor (with David Brady) of Red and Blue America, vols. I-II (Brookings, 2006 and 2008).Peter J. Kastor is Professor of History and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and author of William Clark's World (Yale, 2011).
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