Correspondence of James K. Polk - January-July 1847

Informationen zum Autor Tom Chaffin, research professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is author of, among other books, Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire. Michael David Cohen, assistant research professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is author of Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War. Klappentext Many of this volume's letters chronicle the Tennessean's prosecution of the Mexican War, a conflict that, along with his 1846 acquisition of the US portion of today's Pacific Northwest, increased by one-third the size of United States. The letters also lift the veil on the personal life and business affairs of one of the most private men ever to occupy the presidency. Zusammenfassung Many of this volume’s letters chronicle the Tennessean’s prosecution of the Mexican War, a conflict that, along with his 1846 acquisition of the US portion of today’s Pacific Northwest, increased by one-third the size of United States. The letters also lift the veil on the personal life and business affairs of one of the most private men ever to occupy the presidency.

Product details

• Authors: Tom (EDT)/ Cohen Chaffin, James K Polk, James K. Polk
• Assisted by: Tom Chaffin (Editor), Michael David Cohen (Editor)
• Publisher: Univeristy of Tennessee Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2013
• EAN: 9781572339521
• ISBN: 978-1-57233-952-1
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Correspondence of James K. Pol; Correspondence of James K. Polk; Correspondence of James K. Pol; Correspondence of James K. Polk; Utp Correspondence James Polk
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education