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Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

by A.J. Langguth

Simon and Schuster

November 2007, 409 pages, $16.00

by Michael Patrick Brady

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Historian A.J. Langguth chronicles this exciting and uncertain period in a riveting account of the construction of American society.

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