A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
Format: kindle
ASIN: B0042JSN22
Publish date: November 3rd 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 612
Edition language: English
For the first time in my presidential reading endeavors, I felt like I might have been better off giving in to chronology. With Polk everything is all Jacksonian this, Jacksonian that, Jackson, Jackson, Jackson. Polk was Lil Bow Wow to Jackson’s Snoop Dog (though they went with the decidedly lamer ‘...
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