Less than 100 years after its creation as a fragile republic, the United States more than quadrupled its size, making it the world's third largest ...
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Feb 05, 2009
In Seizing Destiny, Richard Kluger, author of the Supreme Court study Simple Justice (1977) and Ashes to Ashes (1997), a Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the tobacco industry, takes as his subject America's expansion "from sea to shining sea." Critics are generally positive in their assessment of the book, and applaud Kluger's willingness to deal with the less-heroic details of American expansion. Some, however, question the author's thesis and its execution. That the motives for land ac
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Dec 11, 2011
Jean-Paul
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This chronicle explains the fast and enormous growth of the U.S.A. from the arrival of the first colonists to the 20th century. In the belief that the hand of providence was supporting them, our forefathers grasped every
opportunity, by every kind of means, to expand their territory.
This is an appalling account of how, with
diplomacy, dumb luck, aggression, cunning, and a racist conviction, a whole continent
became one country with one culture and
without language b
opportunity, by every kind of means, to expand their territory.
This is an appalling account of how, with
diplomacy, dumb luck, aggression, cunning, and a racist conviction, a whole continent
became one country with one culture and
without language b
Sep 25, 2007
Tamara
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This was the densest book I've actually managed to get through in ages. It was great. Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Kluger really digs into the wheeling and dealing and bullying and arrogance behind all of the United States' land acquisitions.
You hear about the Louisiana Purchase, Seward's Folly and all the rest in school, but you never get to know about all the the back-room negotiations, bribes, threats of war and underhanded tricks it took to actually win them.
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You hear about the Louisiana Purchase, Seward's Folly and all the rest in school, but you never get to know about all the the back-room negotiations, bribes, threats of war and underhanded tricks it took to actually win them.
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Dec 24, 2007
Fred
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Excellent! My main interest was to explore more the Mexican American war of 1846, this book covers that and all other territorial acquisitions by hook or crook.
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