Employing fictional dispatches, articles, and letters, Bruce Cutler's extended poem At War with Mexico re-creates the transformation of America during the Mexican War. It portrays the years 1846-1848 as filled with hope, ambition, piety, incomprehension, and greed. When blind devotion to Manifest Destiny dovetailed with nineteenth-century arrogance, a national persona was born. Because the success of national events seemed divinely ordained, the white populace viewed itself as "chosen" in a new world age.
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Employing fictional dispatches, articles, and letters, Bruce Cutler's extended poem At War with Mexico re-creates the transformation of America during the Mexican War. It portrays the years 1846-1848 as filled with hope, ambition, piety, incomprehension, and greed. When blind devotion to Manifest Destiny dovetailed with nineteenth-century arrogance, a national persona was born. Because the success of national events seemed divinely ordained, the white populace viewed itself as "chosen" in a new world age.
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