Met His Every Goal? : James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny / / Tom Chaffin
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Knoxville : , : University of Tennessee Press, , 2015 |
| Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015 | |
| ©2015 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.6/1092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Manifest Destiny |
| Presidents - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government 1845-1849 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Traces of the dark horse -- The expansionist -- The autocrat -- The historian and the president -- The legends of Manifest Destiny -- The road to Fort Sumter. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | <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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Met His Every Goal |
| ISBN: | 1-62190-128-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797435303321 |
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