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_aMerry, Robert W., _d1946- _1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbGV486QCyrFD6Yq3YF8C |
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_aA country of vast designs : _bJames K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent / _cRobert W. Merry. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | _aJames K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent |
| 250 | _a1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. | ||
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_aNew York (N.Y.) : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2009 |
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_ax, 576 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, map, portraits ; _c25 cm |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 479-550) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aRitual of democracy: the emergence of an expansionist president -- Young Hickory: the making of a Jackson prot�eg�e -- Tennessee and Washington: the rise and fall of a presidential loyalist -- The 1844 election: searching for a means of political recovery -- Texas: dawn of a new era -- Baltimore: America's first political dark horse -- Polk vs. Clay: answering the question, "Who is James K. Polk?" -- The victor: preparing for the mantle of leadership -- Taking charge: America's zest for grand ambitions -- Annexation complete: diplomacy, intrigue, and the force of politics -- The United States and Oregon: "The people here are worn out by delay" -- The United States and Mexico: divergent new world cultures on a path to war -- Britain and Mexico: playing with prospects of a dual war -- The Twenty-ninth Congress: Polk takes command of the national agenda -- End of a treaty: diplomacy and politics at war with each other -- War: "Every consideration of duty and patriotism" -- Vagaries of war: "And may there be no recreant soul to fail or falter now" -- Presidential temperament: "I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government" -- Wilmot's proviso: transformation of the war debate -- The war in the West: patriotism, duty, adventure, and glory -- The new face of war: "We are yet to have a long and wearisome struggle" -- The politics of rancor: constitutional usurpation vs. moral treason -- Dilatory Congress: the challenge of presidential leadership -- Veracruz and beyond: grappling with Mexico's military defiance -- Scott and Trist: a clash of policy and temperament -- Mexico City: the pivot of personality -- The specter of conquest: "Have we conquered peace? Have we obtained a treaty?" -- Treaty: from Trist to Polk to the Senate -- Peace: California, New Mexico, and the Union -- Final months: "Solemnly impressed with the ... emptiness of worldly honors" -- Legacy: the price of presidential accomplishment. | |
| 520 | _aMerry examines how, in a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of America's Manifest Destiny by expanding its territory across the continent. | ||
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_aPolk, James K. _q(James Knox), _d1795-1849. |
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_aPolk, James Knox, _d1795-1849. |
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_aTerritorial expansion _2fast |
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_aTerritoriale conflicten. _2gtt |
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_acollective biographies. _2aat |
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