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Autore |
Chaffin Tom |
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Titolo |
Met His Every Goal? : James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny / / Tom Chaffin |
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Knoxville : , : University of Tennessee Press, , 2015 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (145 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Manifest Destiny |
Presidents - United States |
United States Politics and government 1845-1849 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Traces of the dark horse -- The expansionist -- The autocrat -- The historian and the president -- The legends of Manifest Destiny -- The road to Fort Sumter. |
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<div>Soon after winning the presidency in 1845, according to the oft-repeated anecdote, James K. Polk slapped his thigh and predicted what would be the ""four great measures"" of his administration: the acquisition of some or all of the Oregon Country, the acquisition of California, a reduction in tariffs, and the establishment of a permanent independent treasury. Over the next four years, the Tennessee Democrat achieved all four goals. And those milestones-along with his purported enunciation of them-have come to define his presidency. Indeed, repeated <i>ad infinitum</i> in U.S. history text |
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