Polk : the man who transformed the presidency and America / Walter R. Borneman.
Borneman, Walter R., 1952-
2008
E417 .B67 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Polk : the man who transformed the presidency and America / Walter R. Borneman.
Author Borneman, Walter R., 1952-
ISBN 9781400065608 (alk. paper)
1400065607 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Random House, c2008.
Language English
Description xxiii, 422 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number E417 .B67 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.6/1092
B
Summary The first complete biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk's pledge to serve a single term, which many thought would make him a lame duck, enabled him to rise above electoral politics and to outflank his adversaries. Thus he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought for and won tariff reductions, reestablished an independent Treasury, and most notably, brought Texas into the Union, bluffed Great Britain out of the lion's share of Oregon, and wrested California and much of the Southwest from Mexico. In tracing Polk's life and career, author Borneman dispels conventional views of Polk as an accidental president. Instead, we see Polk as he was--a decisive, if not partisan, statesman whose near doubling of America's boundaries and expansive broadening of executive powers redefined the country at large, as well as the nature of its highest office.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [396]-404) and index.
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I: The man
Old Hickory's boy
Carrying the water
Tennessee and Old Tippecanoe
The last defeat
Hands off Texas
A summons from Old Hickory
Baltimore, 1844
"Who is James K. Polk?"
II: The conquest
Making good on Texas
Standing firm on Oregon
Eyeing California
Mission to Mexico
"American blood upon American soil"
54'40' compromise!
To Santa Fe and beyond
Mr. Polk's war
Old Bullion's son-in-law
A president on the spot
Securing the spoils
The Whigs find another General
Homeward bound
A Presidential assessment.

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