To Fix a National Character : The United States in the First Barbary War, 180…

by | 5 Aug 2026

A new history of the First Barbary War, a conflict that helped plant the seeds for the United States’ ascent to a global superpower. InTo Fix a National Character, Abigail G. Mullen argues that the First Barbary War represented much more than the military defeat of an irritating minor power.