James K. Polk, Vol 1. Jacksonian / / Charles Grier Sellers.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1957 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- I. Old Mecklenburg
- II. Growing Up with the West
- III. The Politics of Democracy
- IV. The Factious Opposition
- V. Defining Democratic Republicanism
- VI. The Democracy and the Money Power
- VII. "Polk Deserves a Medal"
- VIII. Polk versus Bell
- IX. Tennessee Deserts Jackson
- X. Mr. Speaker Polk
- XI. Tennessee Redeemed
- XII. The Governorship-and Higher Stakes
- XIII. Frustration
- XIV. Finis?
- Sources
- Index