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008			070412s2008 nyuab b 001 0beng d
010			_a2007014040
020			_a9781400065608 (alk. paper)
020			_a1400065607 (alk. paper)
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035			_a(OCoLC)123232239
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100	1		_aBorneman, Walter R., _d1952- _915832
245	1	0	_aPolk : _bthe man who transformed the presidency and America / _cWalter R. Borneman.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bRandom House, _cc2008.
300			_axxiii, 422 p. : _bill., maps ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [396]-404) and index.
520			_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.
600	1	0	_aPolk, James K. _q(James Knox), _d1795-1849. _915833
650		0	_aPresidents _zUnited States _vBiography. _912546
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1845-1849. _915834
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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