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The man who engineered the delicate checks and balances of the American government was forced to preside over its near-total collapse.
We examine the years 1809 through 1817 as the "Second War of Independence," a period where the United States fought for its sovereignty not against a tax or a king, but against the geopolitical reality of being a small republic in a world of titans.
This is the story of a government paralyzed by its own principles, a capital city reduced to charcoal, and a military disaster that was miraculously transmuted into a psychological victory.
We trace the painful transition of the American identity from a loose confederation of coastal states into a unified national entity, forged in the fires of an unnecessary war and the demise of the first political opposition.Book information
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History, Biography and Memoir
