A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln And The 1846 U.S. Invasion Of Mexico
by Greenberg, Amy S
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- Hardcover
- first
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Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Stated First Edition. HB. Quarter black cloth and maroon paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 344 pp. Small remainder mark bottom of text block only mark in book, binding tight and covers clean. In an unclipped dust jacket that shows light wear top of spine. Book condition VG+ in VG DJ.
Synopsis
Amy S. Greenberg is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Women's Studies at Penn State University. 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. Her previous books include Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire and Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City .
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- Parker's Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MT8083
- Title
- A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln And The 1846 U.S. Invasion Of Mexico
- Author
- Greenberg, Amy S
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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- Remainder Mark
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- Tight
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- Gilt
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- VG
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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