02152cam a2200349 a 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016008004100033010001500074020003100089020002800120035001300148035002100161040004400182043001200226049000900238050002000247082002200267100003900289245008600328250001200414260003800426300004200464504006600506520093400572600005301506650004901559651006201608942001401670999001701684952010101701123232239OCoLC20250710104819.0070412s2008    nyuab    b    001 0beng d  a2007014040  a9781400065608 (alk. paper)  a1400065607 (alk. paper)  626218318  a(OCoLC)123232239  aDLCcDLCdBTCTAdBAKERdYDXCPdNOGdAJM  an-us---  aNOGA00aE417b.B67 200800a973.6/1092aB2221 aBorneman, Walter R.,d1952-91583210aPolk :bthe man who transformed the presidency and America /cWalter R. Borneman.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bRandom House,cc2008.  axxiii, 422 p. :bill., maps ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [396]-404) and index.  aThe first complete biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk's pledge to serve a single term, which many thought would make him a lame duck, enabled him to rise above electoral politics and to outflank his adversaries. Thus he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought for and won tariff reductions, reestablished an independent Treasury, and most notably, brought Texas into the Union, bluffed Great Britain out of the lion's share of Oregon, and wrested California and much of the Southwest from Mexico. In tracing Polk's life and career, author Borneman dispels conventional views of Polk as an accidental president. Instead, we see Polk as he was--a decisive, if not partisan, statesman whose near doubling of America's boundaries and expansive broadening of executive powers redefined the country at large, as well as the nature of its highest office.10aPolk, James K.q(James Knox),d1795-1849.915833 0aPresidentszUnited StatesvBiography.912546 0aUnited StatesxPolitics and governmenty1845-1849.915834  2ddccBOOK  c29327d29327  2ddc4070aABELJbABELJcBd2024-02-14g25.99l0oB POLKp65825r2024-02-14w2024-02-14yBOOK11