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Non-Fiction

eppur_se_muova

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1. Sorry I can't help you, but I do remember enjoying that book when I read it (years ago).

Reply to Adsos Letter (Original post)

Sun Nov 8, 2015, 06:05 PM

Nov 2015

I was surprised to find anything about the Mexican War in the popular press (even though it was in a college bookstore). It's pretty awkward to remind people that 1/4 of the mainland US was basically stolen from our neighbor at gunpoint, and that we even celebrate it in the first line of the Marine Corp Hymn. Most history classes in high school just blur the whole thing over, like it was some kind of bad dream.

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Just about half-way through Eisenhower's "So Far From God: The U. S. War With Mexico, 1846–1848." [View all] Adsos Letter Nov 2015 OP

Sorry I can't help you, but I do remember enjoying that book when I read it (years ago). eppur_se_muova Nov 2015 #1

Even here in California. Adsos Letter Nov 2015 #2

Yes, a rich History Marbgd1 Mar 2016 #5

THE VIEW FROM CHAPULTEPEC paxarito Mar 2016 #3

That is helpful! Adsos Letter Mar 2016 #4