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Anti-war sentiment in Boston forms part of the background to Patrick O'Brian's The Fortune of War (one of the series of novels featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and

• sillyquiet 6y ago
  After reading some of the sources he used to form that impression, it's amazing how closely the politics of that day resemble more modern invective and rhetoric, especially around the Iraq war. Substitute 'Bush' for 'Madison' and you would be hard pressed to tell the difference.