Robert W. Merry
Author of A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
About the Author
Robert W. Merry is the author of Where They Stand: A Country of Vast Designs, James K. Polk: Sands of Empire; and Taking on the Word. He covered government and politics for The Wall Street Journal for a decade and spent twenty-two years as an executive at Congressional Quarterly Inc., including show more twelve years as GEO. This is his fifth book. Merry lives with his wife in Langley, Washington, and Washington, D.G. show less
Works by Robert W. Merry
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (2009) 677 copies
Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition (2005) 52 copies
Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 (2024) 6 copies
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- 1946
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- USA
- Places of residence
- McLean, Virginia, USA
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- Congressional Quarterly
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On one side, it is the story of a moral awakening and acknowledgement that slavery was a communal sin, with a belief in a higher law than mere human government. The other side held states rights as necessary to the freedoms protected by the Constitution, asserting that the founding fathers meant to protect slavery.
Again and again while reading this history I noted the echoes of this division reverberating throughout history, to today’s politically divided world.
The book is dense with key political players brilliantly portrayed, fully covering all the important events of the decade.
I was left with a sobering awareness of the continuing battle that is democracy, with hopes that the ‘higher morality’ of equality and justice continues to prevail.
Thanks to the publisher for a free book.… (more)