James K. Polk, Volume II: Continent

by Charles Grier Sellers

Book Overview

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 administration covered here contain the bulk of his expansionist program-the annexation of Texas, the settlement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691650411
• ISBN13: 9780691650418
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"