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Joseph Wheelan explores the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848. The author chronicles President James Polk’s desire to acquire California via war and the popular dissent that followed the …

Joseph Wheelan talked about his book Mr. Adams’s Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams’s Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress, published by PublicAffairs. In his book Mr. Wheelan docum…

Mr. Wheelan talked about his book Jefferson’s Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary, published by Carroll and Graf. He argued that Aaron Burr was a naturally gifted orator a…