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Paperback / softback. New. Soon after winning the presidency in 1845, according to the oft-repeated anecdote, James K. Polk slapped his thigh and predicted what would be the ""four great measures"" of his administration: the acquisition of some or all of the Oregon Country, the acquisition of California, a reduction in tariffs, and the establishment of a permanent independent treasury. Over the next four years, the Tennessee Democrat achieved all four goals. And those milestones--along with his purported enunciation of them--have come to define his presidency. Indeed, repeated ad infinitum in U.S. history textbooks, Polk's bold listing of goals has become U.S. political history's equivalent of Babe Ruth's called home run of the 1932 World Series, in which the slugger allegedly gestured toward the outfield and, on the next pitch, slammed a home run. But then again, as Tom Chaffin reveals in this lively tour de force of historiographic sleuthing, like…
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Met His Every Goal?: James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny Paperback - 2014
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- Title Met His Every Goal?: James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny
- Author Tom Chaffin
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 124
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ Tennessee Press
- Date 2014
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781621900993 / 1621900991
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 7.3 x 5.01 x 0.38 in (18.54 x 12.73 x 0.97 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: South
- Library of Congress subjects Presidents - United States, Polk, James K
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014024068
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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