Invading Mexico: America's Continental Dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Joseph Wheelan

Invading Mexico: America's Continental Dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848

Joseph Wheelan

492 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Popular historian Joseph Wheelan recounts James Polk’s strategy of last resort for prying California away from Mexico. He had tried to buy it; he had instructed his agents to encourage a settlers’ revolt. When these measures failed, the impatient ...

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