Amy S. Greenberg is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Women's Studies at Penn State University. She is a leading scholar of Manifest Destiny and has held fellowships from the Huntington Library, the New-York Historical Society, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society. Her previous books include Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire and Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City.
"Amy Greenberg's original and moving narrative of the U.S. invasion
of Mexico relates the gradual loss of enthusiasm for waging what
began as a popular war of conquest. How peace ultimately prevailed
is the most surprising part of her story."
--Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of What Hath
God Wrought "No less a warrior than Ulysses S. Grant had good
reason to decry the war with Mexico as 'wicked.' In Amy S.
Greenberg's dramatic and deeply engaging political narrative, the
reader gets the grit of the campaign and rich insight into the
fascinating historical actors who stage-managed (or resisted) this
all-important, under-studied war. In these fast-turning pages, we
see clashes among political opportunists, moments of eloquence and
pathos-all under the rising sun of American power."
--Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, authors of Madison and
Jefferson "A Wicked War gives the U.S.-Mexican War a personal
dimension and immediacy that has been lacking until now. Amy
Greenberg makes us live the war vicariously through the lives of
the aging patriarch Henry Clay who lost a son in Mexico, the
husband-and-wife presidential team of James K. and Sarah Polk, the
lanky and somewhat disheveled Abraham Lincoln still learning about
politics, and others. This is a rare melding of great story-telling
and analysis of an era that shaped not only the United States but
the entire North American continent."
--Andres Resendez, author of A Land So Strange "A Wicked War, with
its emphasis on politics rather than military history, does for the
Mexican-American war what James McPherson did for the Civil War
with Battle Cry of Freedom, greatly broadening our understanding of
the war. Certainly Professor Greenberg's book will immediately
become the standard account of the Mexican War, at last giving it
an important place in the history of the United States. This book
restores my faith in the merits of narrative history."
--Mark E. Neely, Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Fate of
Liberty "A well-rendered, muscular history of a war whose
ramifications are still being carefully calibrated."
--Kirkus Reviews "The seldom-sung Mexican War emerges as one of
America's most morally ambiguous and divisive conflicts in this
illuminating history."
--Publishers Weekly
"Amy S. Greenberg's new history elegantly unfolds the story of the
war through the lives of five politicians . . . [Greenberg]
immerse[s] her readers in the early 1840s . . . Gripping."
--Maria Montoya, San Francisco Chronicle "A provocative main idea
in a freshly original narrative."
--Booklist "The best account we have of the politics of Mr. Polk's
War . . . If one can read only a single book about the
Mexican-American War, this is the one to read."
--James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books
"Greenberg writes taut political history, full of chapter-ending
cliffhangers and characters who feel like real people."
--Zocalo Public Square
"In her absorbing and valuable A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln,
and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico, Penn State's Amy S. Greenberg
does a splendid job of vivifying this disgraceful episode in
American history."
--Bill Kauffman, Reason
Amy Greenberg's original and moving narrative of the U.S. invasion
of Mexico relates the gradual loss of enthusiasm for waging what
began as a popular war of conquest. How peace ultimately prevailed
is the most surprising part of her story.
Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of "What Hath God
Wrought"
No less a warrior than Ulysses S. Grant had good reason to decry
the war with Mexico as wicked. In Amy S. Greenberg s dramatic and
deeply engaging political narrative, the reader gets the grit of
the campaign and rich insight into the fascinating historical
actors who stage-managed (or resisted) this all-important,
under-studied war. In these fast-turning pages, we see clashes
among political opportunists, moments of eloquence and pathos-all
under the rising sun of American power.
Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, authors of "Madison and
Jefferson"
"A Wicked War "gives the U.S.-Mexican War a personal dimension and
immediacy that has been lacking until now. Amy Greenberg makes us
live the war vicariously through the lives of the aging patriarch
Henry Clay who lost a son in Mexico, the husband-and-wife
presidential team of James K. and Sarah Polk, the lanky and
somewhat disheveled Abraham Lincoln still learning about politics,
and others. This is a rare melding of great story-telling and
analysis of an era that shaped not only the United States but the
entire North American continent.
Andres Resendez, author of "A Land So Strange"
"A Wicked War," with its emphasis on politics rather than military
history, does for the Mexican-American war what James McPherson did
for the Civil War with "Battle Cry of Freedom," greatly broadening
our understanding of the war. Certainly Professor Greenberg s book
will immediately become the standard account of the Mexican War, at
last giving it an important place in the history of the United
States. This book restores my faith in the merits of narrative
history.
Mark E. Neely, Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Fate of
Liberty"
A well-rendered, muscular history of a war whose ramifications are
still being carefully calibrated."
"Kirkus Reviews"
"The seldom-sung Mexican War emerges as one of America's most
morally ambiguous and divisive conflicts in this illuminating
history."
"Publishers Weekly
"
Amy S. Greenberg s new history elegantly unfolds the story of the
war through the lives of fivepoliticians . . . [Greenberg]
immerse[s] her readers in the early 1840s . . . Gripping.
Maria Montoya, "San Francisco Chronicle
""A provocative main idea in a freshly original narrative."
"Booklist"
The best account we have of the politics of Mr. Polk s War . . . If
one can read only a single book about the Mexican-American War,
this is the one to read.
James M. McPherson, "The New York Review of Books
"
Greenberg writes taut political history, full of chapter-ending
cliffhangers and characters who feel like real people.
"Zocalo Public Square
"
In her absorbing and valuable "A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln,
and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico, " Penn State s Amy S.
Greenberg does a splendid job of vivifying this disgraceful episode
in American history.
Bill Kauffman, "Reason""
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