Description: "Serving as a vehicle for change and offering an outlet for the anxieties of a changing socity, Watts writes, the War of 1812 "ultimately intensified and sanctioned the imperatives of a developing world-view."
Brief description: Steven Watts is a professor of American intellectual and cultural history at the University of Missouri. He has contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, and the New Republic. He is the author of Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream and The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century.
Review Quotes: As the national love feast with Oliver North reminded us, Americans have an abiding attraction to war and warriors . . . The Republic Reborn probes the historical roots of this attraction.
--William and Mary Quarterly