1824: The Arkansas War
- ISBN-10
- 0345465709
- ISBN-13
- 9780345465702
- Category
- Fiction / Alternative History
- Pages
- 493
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Author
- Eric Flint
Description
In the hotly contested election of 1824, the machinations of a ruthless Henry Clay to become the new president of the United States leave the nation on the brink of national disaster as Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams form a political alliance against Clay, and Clay launches a war against the Confederacy of the Arkansas, in the sequel to 1812: The Rivers of War. Reprint.
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