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James K. Polk, Vol 1. Jacksonian
By (Author) Charles Grier Sellers
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political leaders and leadership
History of the Americas
973.61092
Hardback
550
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
936g
This full account is of Polk's important pre-presidential career. Since Polk was immersed in so many of the major political developments of his day-the rise of popular democracy, the conflicts over the national bank and other crucial issues of Jackson's administrations, and after 1835 the fateful emergence of sectional animosities-his biography is