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2016-03-06 Home Front: Culture Wars

This Week in Books, March 6, 2016

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Posted by swksvolFF 2016-03-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Good review. I bought this book last summer for my Kindle, but haven't gotten around to reading it. I'll have to move it up in the queue.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2016-03-06 17:31|| 2016-03-06 17:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank you. It was difficult to not quote the book in its entirety.

Mr. Toll gets into the politics of the venture as well, and it was not pretty.

Mr. Toll also makes the case that the War of 1812 was of significance; that the British would talk to the Americans at the adult table afterwards, and that it was the navy and privateers who won that honor after the army failed everywhere but New Orleans.

To be fair, Mr. Toll does make a case that a failure at New Orleans could have resumed hostilities, or at least given the British a strong hand in the Mississippi River System and checked American westward expansion. Mr. Toll states that had hostilities continued for another year, the United States quite possibly would have dissolved.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-03-06 19:00|| 2016-03-06 19:00|| Front Page Top

#3 I just started reading "The Conquering Tide", part two of Toll's Pacific War Trilogy.

Good stuff.

Posted by charger 2016-03-06 20:59|| 2016-03-06 20:59|| Front Page Top

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