Polk : the man who transformed the presidency and America
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Polk : the man who transformed the presidency and America
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- Polk : the man who transformed the presidency and America
- Title remainder
- the man who transformed the presidency and America
- Statement of responsibility
- Walter R. Borneman
- Subject
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- trueBiographies
- trueHistory writing -- United States -- Presidency -- 19th century
- trueLeadership in men
- trueLife stories -- Politics | Politicians
- truePoliticians
- truePolk, James K., (James Knox), 1795-1849
- Polk, James K., (James Knox), 1795-1849
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- truePresidents -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1845-1849
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1845-1849
- trueHistory writing -- United States -- Antebellum America
- trueHistory writing -- United States -- Presidency
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 973.6/1092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E417
- LC item number
- .B67 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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