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James K. Polk, Volume II: Continent
By (Author) Charles Grier Sellers
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History of the Americas
Political leaders and leadership
973.61
Hardback
532
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
907g
This definitive biography of James K. Polk, the second of three projected volumes, covers the most important years of Polk's political career-from a twice-defeated gubernatorial candidate in Tennessee to dark-horse candidate for the presidency and one of the most successful first eighteen months of any American president. The months of Polk's admin