A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Monday, May 16, 2016

THE WAR OF 1812

Donald R. Hickey, ed., The War of 1812: Writings from America's Second War of Independence (New York: Library of America, 2013)(As with America's First War of Independence, America did not win the War of 1812. Great Britain lost it; or, to be more precise, began no longer willing to pursue it. As with the First, in the Second the American's again unsuccessfully invaded Canada. The result, binding Canada ever closer to Great Britain. And, one sees White Americans viewing Native Americans (even those allied and fighting on America's side) as "internal enemies," to be exterminated or removed.).