A Country of Vast Designs

A Country of Vast Designs
Author: Robert W. Merry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 074329744X


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Explores the one-term presidency of James K. Polk, during which the United States extended its territory across the continent by threatening England and manufacturing a controversial war with Mexico that Abraham Lincoln opposed.


A Country of Vast Designs
Language: en
Pages: 592
Authors: Robert W. Merry
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-02 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Explores the one-term presidency of James K. Polk, during which the United States extended its territory across the continent by threatening England and manufac
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Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Robert W. Merry
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-26 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the
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Language: en
Pages: 925
Authors: Daniel Walker Howe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed ad
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party
Language: en
Pages: 1298
Authors: Michael F. Holt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-05-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a ti
Slavemaster President
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: William Dusinberre
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics. Polk's presidency coincided with the e