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War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
Maybe someday
43
/100
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Readers
49/100Critics
37/100Scholars
Author:
Jeff Guinn
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
May 18, 2021
The story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa--a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day.
What The Reviewers Say
The book doesn’t fully deliver on its ostensible purpose, however. Although engagingly written, it is a largely unoriginal, thinly researched work that, judging by the author’s notes, relies heavily on secondary sources and on interviews with modern historians. The result is a story that concentrates as much on the endless intriguing among the parade of Mexican strongmen and idealists who wrestled for control of Revolutionary Mexico, and on nearly a century of American-Mexican relations prior to 1916, as it does on the professed topic of the book.
... [a] skillfully written history.
... [a] galloping new narrative.
... an excellent history of a defining moment in U.S.–Mexico relations, especially as the author explains the complexities of the Mexican Revolution (1910–24) in engaging detail.
