“An energetic reading by narrator Caroline Shaffer, who performs with great verve and expression and endows historical figures with appropriate and pleasantly done accents. Libraries wishing to fill out their collection of U.S. history of the mid-19th century should consider this title.”
      —Library Journal

“An excellent study of how the war was won on the battlefield and lost in public opinion. Narrator Caroline Shaffer . . . reads with energy, varies her pitch and tone, and engages in character voices in order to keep the book moving.”
      —AudioFile

“Greenberg’s probing account of this war reveals its drama—and its very modern complexity.”
      —Publishers Weekly

“A fascinating glimpse into the history of the United States’ invasion of Mexico, revealing the conflict between James K. Polk’s expansionist doctrine of ‘Manifest Destiny’ and the more domestically focused beliefs of Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln and the Whigs.”
      —Shelf Awareness

“Greenberg clothes a provocative main idea in a freshly original narrative.”
      —Booklist

AMY GREENBERG is Liberal Arts Research Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Penn State. 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. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania.