The Wrath of Manifest

A two-voiced portrait of President Polk and Secretary Buchanan as they engineer, prosecute, and survive a war of conquest that doubles the American republic and lights the fuse of the Civil War.

Chapters

1. 01Chapter One: The Four Points
2. 02Chapter 2: The Secretary's Pen
3. 03Chapter 3: The Closed Door
4. 04Chapter 4: The Disputed Bank
5. 05Chapter 5: American Blood
6. 06Chapter 6: The Silence After the Vote
7. 07Chapter 7: The Guns at Palo Alto
8. 08Chapter Eight: The Forty-Ninth Parallel
9. 09Chapter 9: The Proviso
10. 10Chapter Ten: The Capitulation at Monterrey
11. 11Chapter 11: The Serpent's Return
12. 12Chapter Twelve: The Circular That Was Not Sent
13. 13Chapter 13: Buena Vista
14. 14Chapter 14: The Beaches of Veracruz
15. 15Chapter 15: The Mountain Pass
16. 16Chapter 16: The Clerk's Instructions
17. 17Chapter 17: The Pedregal
18. 18Chapter Eighteen: The Halls of Montezuma
19. 19Chapter Nineteen: The Defiance
20. 20Chapter Twenty: The Conscience of a Clerk