Madness – The War of 1812 – a novel

 
From the publishers: 
 
“The  War of 1812 might be America's worst and least-remembered war. Yet it might have been the nation's most important war, because if the young nation had lost the war, there might not be an America today. The decision by the small, disorganized nation that America was in the early 19th Century to declare war on the world's most powerful empire was, in a word, madness.

That America survived this, the most ill-conceived and poorly executed war in the nation's history, is a near miracle. And thankfully, as Americans emerged from this near-disaster, they began to see themselves as uniquely American and the custodians of the then-revolutionary idea of self-government.

In Madness, author Dennis Byrne describes the folly of how the United States of America, less than a generation after its creation, took on the world's most powerful nation and ended up fighting for its very survival.”