What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by Daniel Walker Howe
🏆 Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History
The eighth volume in the distinguished Oxford History of the United States series. The Atlantic described What Hath God Wrought as a “comprehensive, richly detailed, and elegantly written account of the republic between the War of 1812 and the American victory in Mexico a generation later.” It is, it declared, “a masterpiece.”
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