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Book Review of 1812

1812
1812
Author: David Nevin
Genres: History, Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Through the lives of James & Dolley Madison, Andrew & Rachel Jackson, Winfield Scott, and Sally McQuirk ("the daughter of a Washington publisher who is determined to cover the war as a journalist", the reader lives through "...the thirty months of the war that shaped American destiny". (Quotes from jacket blurb)