A wicked war: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. invasion of Mexico

A Wicked War provides an unusual synthesis of the U.S. -Mexican War by interweaving five biographies, with some "six degrees of separation" interconnections among them, through a narrative, beginning with the U.S. annexation of Texas and ending with the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.Presumably, the book's title omits two of these key protagonists-John