The Mexican War in the American Imagination
by
Robert W. Johannsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 1988
For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe...