UNION 1812 The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

While the United States achieved independence from Britain in 1782, the state of the Union was precarious in the three-and-a-half decades that followed. The war with Britain known as the War of 1812 helped to cement the Union and to solidify a sense of American nationalism--though, as seen in New England's calls for secession, even this was precarious. With his strong and confident voice Grover Gardner takes us on a journey from Washington's Mount Vernon to the battlefield of New Orleans and beyond. He reads at an easygoing, but in no way lackadaisical, pace. His delivery is reminiscent of a lecturer giving a long monologue on a subject with which he is very familiar. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/ SEP 07]